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Links
- 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.
- The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology
http://www.imit.org.uk/ - The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.
- 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]
- Society for Self-playing Musical Instruments
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2831/ - Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments
http://www.didjshop.com/austrAboriginalMusicInstruments.htm - Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.
- 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.
- Duke University Musical Instruments Collections
http://music.duke.edu/dumic.php - Collection built around a 2000 bequest of 400 instruments and 100 paintings from a Duke alumnus. Details of exhibits and performances.
- Experimental Musical Instruments
http://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.
- Frequencies and Ranges
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/frequency.html#Db1 - 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.
- Face Music: Traditional Instruments of the Mongolia People
http://www.face-music.ch/instrum/mongolia_instrum.html - Brief descriptions and photographs.
- Musical Instruments - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/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.
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