Baroque instruments

Baroque Instruments (c. 1600–1750) are Musical instruments used in Baroque music. They were partly used already before, partly are still used today, but with no technology. The movement to perform music in a historically informed way (HIP), trying to recreate the sound of the period, led to the use of historic instruments of the period and to the reconstruction of instruments.

The following table lists instruments, classified as brass, woodwinds, strings, keyboard, and basso continuo. Many instruments have an Italian or French name which is used as a common name also in English. The use of instruments by composers is shown in examples mostly by Johann Sebastian Bach.