Exibition room << Back exhibit information online Name Renaissance Description Our tour of music instruments and their history begins with examples from the 16th Century. Here the museum's oldest instruments are displayed. Pictures and information on musical life in Leipzig at that time, as well as recorded musical examples, all help to give the visitor a good idea of music practices of the period. Passages Baroque   Exhibit Tenor recorder, ca. 1500 Alto recorder, 16th century Exilent recorder, 16th century Racket, 16th century Bass dulcian, 17th century Alto shawm, 17th century Basset crumhorn, ca. 1600 Heinrich Schütz Old Man Stringing a Lute Harp, 16th century Spinet, 1571 Positive Organ, 1614 Harpsichord, 1580 Positive Organ, 1716 Clavichord, ca. 1540