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Face Music: Traditional Instruments of the Mongolia People
Brief descriptions and photographs.
www.face-music.ch
Brief descriptions and photographs.
www.face-music.ch
Musiciansnews.com
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions.
www.musiciansnews.com
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions.
www.musiciansnews.com
Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments
Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.
www.didjshop.com
Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.
www.didjshop.com
CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos.
www.si.umich.edu
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos.
www.si.umich.edu
Musical Instrument Information
Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.
www.oriscus.com
Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.
www.oriscus.com
The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology
The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.
www.imit.org.uk
The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.
www.imit.org.uk
Lithuanian Instrumental Music
Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography.
ausis.gf.vu.lt
Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography.
ausis.gf.vu.lt
World Musical Instrument Gallery
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
www.asza.com
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
www.asza.com
MFA: Musical Instruments
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
www.mfa.org
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
www.mfa.org
Musical Instrument Reference
Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range.
musicarrangers.com
Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range.
musicarrangers.com
NIU Musical Instrument Collection
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type.
www.engineering.usu.edu
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type.
www.engineering.usu.edu
Iberian Folk Instruments
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula.
www.tamborileros.com
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula.
www.tamborileros.com
Society for Self-playing Musical Instruments
Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English/Deutsch].
www.geocities.com
Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English/Deutsch].
www.geocities.com
Mechanical Music Digest
Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.
www.mmdigest.com
Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.
www.mmdigest.com
Duke University Musical Instruments Collections
Collection built around a 2000 bequest of 400 instruments and 100 paintings from a Duke alumnus. Details of exhibits and performances.
music.duke.edu
Collection built around a 2000 bequest of 400 instruments and 100 paintings from a Duke alumnus. Details of exhibits and performances.
music.duke.edu
Pro-Music-News
News from the music industry and professional recording and P.A. technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news. [English/Deutsch]
www.pro-music-news.com
News from the music industry and professional recording and P.A. technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news. [English/Deutsch]
www.pro-music-news.com
Musical Instruments - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents an international array of musical instruments of historical, technical, and social importance, as well as tonal and visual beauty, from accordions to zithers.
www.metmuseum.org
The Met presents an international array of musical instruments of historical, technical, and social importance, as well as tonal and visual beauty, from accordions to zithers.
www.metmuseum.org
Experimental Musical Instruments
Online archives of quarterly journal devoted to interesting and unusual musical instruments and sound sources, along with sales of instruments and guides on how to make and play them.
www.windworld.com
Online archives of quarterly journal devoted to interesting and unusual musical instruments and sound sources, along with sales of instruments and guides on how to make and play them.
www.windworld.com
The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.
Offers information about free reed instruments including the accordion, bayan, concertina, harmonica, sheng and reed organ. Includes definitions, descriptions, history, articles, reviews and a performers directory.
www.ksanti.net
Offers information about free reed instruments including the accordion, bayan, concertina, harmonica, sheng and reed organ. Includes definitions, descriptions, history, articles, reviews and a performers directory.
www.ksanti.net
Frequencies and Ranges
A table of extremely low musical notes matching frequencies with instruments able to play them. Links to pictures and articles including a subcontrabass clarinet built especially to play C-2, or 4 cycles per second.
www.contrabass.com
A table of extremely low musical notes matching frequencies with instruments able to play them. Links to pictures and articles including a subcontrabass clarinet built especially to play C-2, or 4 cycles per second.
www.contrabass.com
Taxonomy of Musical Instruments, by Henry Doktorsi
Chart based on a 1914 scheme by Sachs and von Hornbostel classifies orchestral, folk, and electronic instruments into families. A second chart maps the free-reed family, which includes harmonicas and concertinas, supported by a scholarly history of free-reeds.
www.ksanti.net
Chart based on a 1914 scheme by Sachs and von Hornbostel classifies orchestral, folk, and electronic instruments into families. A second chart maps the free-reed family, which includes harmonicas and concertinas, supported by a scholarly history of free-reeds.
www.ksanti.net
Musical Automata
Systematic recording project begun in 1980 documenting mechanical music devices from Vienna and Prague, with CDs available for sale beginning in 1999. Headed by Helmut Kowar of Phonogrammarchiv, the audiovisual research archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
www.pha.oeaw.ac.at
Systematic recording project begun in 1980 documenting mechanical music devices from Vienna and Prague, with CDs available for sale beginning in 1999. Headed by Helmut Kowar of Phonogrammarchiv, the audiovisual research archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
www.pha.oeaw.ac.at
