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 | Musical Instrument Reference  musicarrangers.com/instruments
Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range. |
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| Taxonomy of Musical Instruments, by Henry Doktorsi 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. |
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| CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos. |
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| The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. www.ksanti.net/free-reed
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. |
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| Experimental Musical Instruments 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. |
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| Frequencies and Ranges 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. |
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| Iberian Folk Instruments www.tamborileros.com/tradiberia/e_inicio.htm
Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula. |
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| Lithuanian Instrumental Music ausis.gf.vu.lt/eka/instrum/instru_c.html
Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography. |
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| Mechanical Music Digest www.mmdigest.com
Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail. |
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| MFA: Musical Instruments www.mfa.org/artemis/collections/mi.htm
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
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| Musical Automata 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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| Musical Instruments - The Metropolitan Museum of Art 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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| Musiciansnews.com www.musiciansnews.com
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions. |
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| NIU Musical Instrument Collection www.engineering.usu.edu/ece/faculty/wheeler/NIU
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type. |
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| Pro-Music-News 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] |
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| World Musical Instrument Gallery www.asza.com/ihm.shtml
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection. |
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