List of period instruments

In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".

This article consists of a list of such instruments in the European tradition, including both instruments that are now obsolete and early versions of instruments that continued to be used in later classical music.

Renaissance (1400–1600)

Strings

Woodwinds

Brasses

    Keyboards

    Percussion

    Baroque (1600–1750)

    Strings

    Woodwind

    Brasses

    Keyboards

    Percussion

    Classical (1750–1820)

    Strings

    Woodwinds

    Keyboards

    Brasses

    Percussion

    See also

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