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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].
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2831/
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.
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/frequency....
Iberian Folk Instruments
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula.
http://www.tamborileros.com/tradiberia/e_i...
NIU Musical Instrument Collection
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type.
http://www.engineering.usu.edu/ece/faculty...
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.
http://www.pha.oeaw.ac.at/Mechanical_Music...
Traditional Music and Instruments of the Mongolia people
An overview of instruments and traditions
http://www.music.ch/face/instrum/mongolia_...
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.
http://music.duke.edu/dumic.php
The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology
The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.
http://www.imit.org.uk/
World Musical Instrument Gallery
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
http://www.asza.com/ihm.shtml
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.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/depar...
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]
http://www.pro-music-news.com/
Mechanical Music Digest
Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.
http://mmd.foxtail.com/
Musiciansnews.com
Daily updated magazine with the CD and music releases and news for musicians.
http://www.musiciansnews.com/
MFA: Musical Instruments
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
http://www.mfa.org/artemis/collections/mi....
Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments
Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.
http://www.didjshop.com/austrAboriginalMus...
Instrument Encyclopedia - Stearns Collection
Musical instruments from around the world including over 140 artifacts from the Stearns Collection at the University of Michigan.
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Musical Instrument Information
Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.
http://www.oriscus.com/mi/
Mxtabs
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.
http://www.mxtabs.net/
The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.
Classical performer, educator and conductor Henry Doktorski offers hundreds of illustrated pages on the concertina, accordion, harmonica, bandoneon, sheng and harmonium (reed organ) including a directory of performers organized by country and instrument.
http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/
Lithuanian Instrumental Music
Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography.
http://ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/instrum/instru_c...
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.
http://www.windworld.com/
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