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Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.
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Collection built around a 2000 bequest of 400 instruments and 100 paintings from a Duke alumnus. Details of exhibits and performances.
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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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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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Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula.
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Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography.
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Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.
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Encyclopedia of Music Instruments from around the World. Initiative of CHICO, the Cultural Heritage Information and Community Outreach University of Michigan School of Information, Stearns Museum of Musical Instruments, and School of Music
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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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Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.
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Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range.
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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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Daily-updated magazine with music releases and news for musicians.
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Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type.
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News from the music industry with professional recording and P.A. technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news. [English/Deutsch]
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Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English/Deutsch].
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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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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.
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The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.
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An overview of instruments and traditions.
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Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
