The Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles is home to an important historic collection of high quality instruments. For a number of years, the Conservatoire has ordered, restored and adapted instruments in order to keep up-to-date with the latest research in instrument-building.
The department of Early Music owns a number of instruments from this collection: string instruments (violins, cellos with four and five strings, bass violins, double basses...), bows, wind instruments (recorder, bassoon, horn, oboe and flute...) and keyboards (organ, harpsichord, pianoforte...). The instrument store is a real research tool which is available to students depending on the needs of the different classes.
Within the Early music department, there is a system of internal loans which allows for regular exchange of instruments. This flexibility means that students are able to use instruments which are appropriate to the repertoire they are currently studying.