The Company
The Renaissance Workshop Company
Ltd. (RWC) is the world’s largest specialist manufacturer of
historical instruments for early music, all based on existing
originals or relevant iconography, meticulously researched and
handmade in our own workshops by a small team of dedicated craftsmen
who have many years experience.
The Renaissance Workshop Company is
justly proud of its wide range of historically accurate musical
instruments, covering mediaeval, renaissance and baroque
periods, representing over 1000 years of
European musical history and culture. (more) |
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The Catalogue
RWC manufactures, for historical performance, a wide
range of faithful reproductions of mediaeval, renaissance and baroque
musical instruments including keyboards (clavichords,
harpsichords,
spinets,
organs…), stringed instruments (harps,
fiddles,
lutes,
viols,
hurdy-gurdies,
psalteries,
guitars…), windcaps (crumhorns,
cornamusen,
bagpipes…), natural reeds (curtals,
bassoons,
racketts,
shawms,
sordunes…), brasswinds (natural
trumpets) and percussion (drums,
timpanies,
tabors,
nakers,
timbrels…)
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New Projects
We are engaged with early music and early music
instruments. But developing a new project or instrument is quite
costly. We do not want to make replicas of any instrument but only of
the world best instruments. That implies paying copyrights, study the
originals, getting the specific materials and tools, generate all the
product documentation, making the prototypes, testing them by expert
musicians, etc.
Now you can collaborate and participate in deciding which new
products we should develop in the next future. (more) |
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History
The company's success is mainly due to its founder
Jonathan Askey.
Mr. Askey has been involved in running the early music business since
he joined J. Wood & Sons Ltd. back in 1972. He managed Woods Bradford
music shop, 'The Early Music Shop' for many years and helped to…
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Finished, Kit or Plan?
If you want to compare the advantages and disadvantages of
these three forms of getting an instrument or if you doubt if you will
get a good instrument from a kit, please, read this
article. |
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Bookstore
We have linked a page with
the best selection of books about musical instruments (manufacturing,
performance, history, collections, etc.) |
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Showroom
The new shop in Spain is an attainable paradise for the
early music enthusiast who is offered with the complete range of
instruments made in our own workshops and a selection of mediaeval,
renaissance and baroque musical instruments, accessories and early
music kits from makers from all over the world. (See
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New projects up to
60% Off |
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Auctions from
30% Off |
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In April up to
25% Off |
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RWC Newsletter
Early music festivals, instruments, performers, etc.
Keep updated. |
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Website mistakes
Although our company is based in UK, this website is
edited by our Spanish team. Should you find any mistake, in the
contents or in the English style, please
let us know so
that we can put it right. Thank you. |
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Quality
We pride ourselves in the quality of our work.
Our craftsmen work in our own workshops to produce the parts for all
our instruments, each one being carefully hand built to the highest
standards.
We supply these same top quality parts in our instrument kits and
show you how to build the instrument of your choice.
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Guarantee
We are so confident in the design of each of
our kits that we are certain you will make a good instrument. (more) |
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