List of period instruments - wikipedia List of period instruments The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. 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, including both instruments that are now obsolete and early versions of instruments that continued to be used in later classical music. This list only includes woodwind, keyboard, and brass instruments. Contents 1 Renaissance ( 1400 -- 1600 ) 1.1 Woodwinds 1.2 Keyboards 2 Baroque ( 1600 -- 1750 ) 2.1 Strings 2.2 Woodwind 2.3 Brasses 2.4 Keyboards 3 Classical ( 1750 -- 1820 ) 3.1 Strings 3.2 Woodwinds 3.3 Keyboards 3.4 Brasses 4 See also 5 External links Renaissance ( 1400 -- 1600 ) Regal, c1600, from Frauenfeld Abbey, Switzerland Woodwinds Cornamuse Cromorne Crumhorn Rauschpfeife Recorder Shawm Keyboards Clavichord Harpsichord Virginal Baroque ( 1600 -- 1750 ) Baroque violin and violoncello da spalla or viola da spalla ( cello like instrument often held to chest or shoulder by a strap while playing ) Strings Violino piccolo Violin Viol Viola Viola d'amore Viola pomposa Tenor violin Cello Contrabass Violone Lute Theorbo Archlute Angélique Mandolin Baroque guitar Harp Hurdy - gurdy A double - manual harpsichord after Jean - Claude Goujon ( 1749 ). Woodwind Baroque flute Chalumeau Cortol ( also known as Cortholt, Curtall, Oboe family ) Dulcian Baroque oboe Rackett Recorder Brasses Baroque trumpet, Cornetto, Serpent, Sackbut Keyboards Clavichord Harpsichord Organ Classical ( 1750 -- 1820 ) A Classical 4 - key boxwood clarinet, ca. 1760. Strings Violin Viola Cello Double bass guitar Woodwinds Basset clarinet Basset horn Clarinette d'amour Clarinet Chalumeau Keyboards Clavichord Fortepiano Organ Brasses Buccin Ophicleide -- Serpent replacement, precursor of tuba See also Castrato List of recorder players External links Early musical instruments Historical Brass Instruments as described by Antique Sound Workshop, Ltd. Historically informed performance Early music festivals Boston Early Music Festival Festival Oude Muziek Flanders Festival Regensburg Tage Alter Musik Instrument builders Arnold Dolmetsch William Dowd Frank Hubbard Martin Skowroneck Instrument collections Bate Collection Brussels Musical Instrument Museum Metropolitan Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Musikinstrumente Vienna National Music Museum Smithsonian Institution Yale University Paris Conservatoire Instrument collectors American Musical Instrument Society Galpin Society Primary instruments Harpsichord Recorder Viol Instruction Amherst Early Music Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Societies American Recorder Society Cambridge Society of Early Music Early Music America Lute Society Lute Society of America National Early Music Association Society of Recorder Players Viola da Gamba Society Viola da Gamba Society of America Labels Archiv Produktion Das Alte Werk Dorian Recordings EMI - Reflexe Harmonia Mundi L'Oiseau - Lyre Titanic Records Shows Harmonia Micrologus Millennium of Music Pied Piper Other Early music revival List of early music ensembles Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_period_instruments&oldid=809959307 '' Categories : Historically informed performance Lists of musical instruments Talk Contents About Wikipedia Македонски Edit links This page was last edited on 12 November 2017, at 16 : 06. About Wikipedia

Question: the main keyboard instruments of the baroque period were the
Answer: Clavichord