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Musical instruments that nearly disappeared from history

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...
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MIT Researchers Recreate Ancient Musical Instruments to Bring Lost Sounds Back to Life

MIT researchers recreate ancient musical instruments using CT scans and 3D technology, allowing audiences to hear sounds from centuries ago.

Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...
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European and American musical instruments

Stringed instruments. Liras and early violas ; The violin group ; Viols ; Viola d'amore, cither viol, baryton ; Trumpet marine ; Hurdy-gurdy ; Lutes ; Mandores ; Long ...
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Marvels of sound and beauty : Italian Baroque musical instruments / edited by Franca Falletti, Renato Meucci, Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni

Resounding beauties : the beauty of sound / Franca Falletti -- Mucial instrument collections in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / Renato Meucci -- Italian musical instruments in Europe : the dynamics of ...