- Musical Instrument Information - http://www.oriscus.com/mi/
Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.
- CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia - http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos.
- Pro-Music-News - http://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]
- Mechanical Music Digest - http://mmd.foxtail.com/
Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.
- Musical Instruments - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=18
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.
- Musiciansnews.com - http://www.musiciansnews.com/
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions.
- Musical Instrument Reference - http://music-arrangers.com/instruments/
From MusicArrangers.com. Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range.
- Mxtabs - http://www.mxtabs.net/
Over a thousand tabs (tablatures) for drum, bass and guitar for alternative, metal and rock music. Lessons, articles, links and site reviews, how to read tabs.
- NIU Musical Instrument Collection - http://www.engineering.usu.edu/ece/faculty/wheeler/NIU/
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type.
- World Musical Instrument Gallery - http://www.asza.com/ihm.shtml
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
- MFA: Musical Instruments - http://www.mfa.org/artemis/collections/mi.htm
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Iberian Folk Instruments - http://www.tamborileros.com/tradiberia/e_inicio.htm
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula.
- Lithuanian Instrumental Music - http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/instrum/instru_c.html
Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography.
- The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. - http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/
Offers information about free reed instruments including the accordian, bayan, concertina, harmonica, sheng and reed organ. Includes definitions, descriptions, history, articles, reviews and a performers directory.
- Taxonomy of Musical Instruments, by Henry Doktorsi - http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/description/taxonomy.html
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.
- Musical Automata - http://www.pha.oeaw.ac.at/Mechanical_Music/
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.
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