Instruments used during the Trecento included the vielle, lute, psaltery, flute, and organetto (portative organ: Landini is holding one in the illustration).

"Pastime with Good Company" remains a favourite piece in choral repertoires, and has been recorded in many variants that include lute, recorder, trombone, percussion and flute, among other instruments.

Other instruments include drums, lute, askomandoura (a type of bagpipe) and aulos.

In addition to guitars, specialty instruments produced at the GLW included lute, vihuela, and viola da gamba.

These instruments included a sarrusophone, Israeli recorder, Chinese oboe, lute, mandolin, Yugoslav flute, kythara, dulcimer, and bagpipes.

The festival orchestra is a crack ensemble of 29 musicians playing period instruments, including a large continuo group that includes lute, theorbo, guitar, harp, two harpsichords and viola da gamba.

Mattson's instruments include the lute, baroque lute, mandora, bass mandora, hummel, classical guitar, baroque guitar Mora-oud, accordion, Swedish dulcimer, hurdy gurdy and vocals.

His teachers included lute with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where in 1981 he received his soloist's diploma.

Other instruments featured in a Baroque orchestra include the harpsichord and lautenwerk, viola da gamba and bass viol, recorder, Baroque bassoon, lute and theorbo.

The instruments most commonly plucked include the guitar, lute and mandolin.