Compiled by Steven Hendricks and Al Cofrin.
For a list complete with addresses and phone numbers, please email Al Cofrin.
Instruments, Supplies, Music
American String Teachers Assoc./Merz-Huber Co. (Instrument Insurance)
630 Fairview Rd., Swarhmore, PA 19081
Phone: 610-544-2323
Antique Sound Workshop (not recommended)
Beekhuizen, Paul (historical bagpipes)
Boston Catlines (superior gut strings)
Brown, Lawrence K. (lute family, highly recommended)
Cofrin, Al (excellent Renaissance & Medieval dance collections)
Courtly Music Unlimited (sheet music and recorders)
Cronin Double Reeds (top of the line & relatively low cost shawms in authentic D & G tuning)
Dennis, Karl (violin & vielle maker)
Early Double Reed Service (double reed maintainance supplies)
Early Music Shop in Bradford, UK (good source for used instruments)
Elder, Lyn, Luthier – Lyn Elder Workshop (Lutes, Viols, Early fiddles, Hurdy-gurdies, Gittern, Cittern, Sitole, Psalteries, Miscellaneous Brass & Woodwinds)
74 North Street, Bristol VT 05443
Phone: 802-453-3625
Email: lynelder08@gmail.com
Forrester, Peter Lutes (lute & cittern family)
20 Beechwood Ave., Alymerton, Norfolk NR11 8QQ,
United Kingdom
Phone: 01144-126 383 7711
Foster, Dan (lutes, etc)
707 Harding Ave., Blacksburg, VA 24060
Phone: 540-953-1561
Grabenstein Bows (Renaissance & Medieval bows)
Harms Historical Percussion (best Medieval & Renaissance side drums)
Hathaway, Paul (lute family, vielles, citterns)
Hendricks Music (great Renaissance arrangements)
House of Musical Traditions, Inc. (Mid-East Mfg. distributor)
Kelischeck Workshop for Historical Instruments
Kopp, Jim Double Reeds (dulcian reed maker)
Lark in the Morning (instruments – you get what you pay for, pretty good Mid-East saz, David Brown knows Middle Eastern instruments)
Larson, Dan (strings & stringed instruments)
Lazar’s Early Music (instruments)
Lehmann, Bernard (lute, vielle & rebec family)
Lewandowski, Lynne (harps, lyres, monochords, psalteries)
Melody’s Traditional Music & Harp Shoppe (modern folk harp, Ren fifes, dumbeks, bodhran, bowed psaltery)
Mid-East Mfg, Inc. (low cost mid-east percussion)
Moeck Wind Instruments (excellent recorders & double reeds)
Morse-Brown, Owen (vielles)
Eric Moulder Double Reeds (shawms, dulcians)
Email: Eric@renaissancewoodwinds.co.uk
Najarian Music (extremely fine ouds $800-1800)
Olympic Instruments (hurdy-gurdies, highly recommended)
OMI-Old Manuscripts & Incunabula
Pringle, John (viols)
Joel Robinson (double reeds, Med/Ren bagpipes)
Saraband Music (specialist retailer & publisher of early music, fine modern editions & facsimiles, gut strings, baroque bows)
Request a catalogue – state what instrument you play. Teacher of viola da gamba.
Sweet Pipes (best prices for plastic Aulos Baroque recorders & flutes)
Thurau, Rainer M. (harps)
Village Bazaar (professional quality mid-east percussion)
Von Huene Workshop, Inc. (highly recommended for new & used wind instruments)
Zuchowicz, Dominik (viols, violins)
More Instrument Maker Lists
Medieval Music & Arts Foundation
Early Music Festivals
Amherst Early Music Festival (highly recommended)
Vancouver Early Music Programme & Festival
European Festivals Association
San Francisco Early Music Workshop
Early Music America’s list of workshops around the world
Early Music Groups