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For sites about specific instruments and their families. Subjects include musical range and tone, technical specifications, history, and instrument making, manufacture and repair.

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Resources in This Category

• Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments

  http://www.didjshop.com/austrAboriginalMusicInstruments.htm
  Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.

• 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.

• Face Music: Traditional Instruments of the Mongolia People

  http://www.face-music.ch/instrum/mongolia_instrum.html
  Brief descriptions and photographs.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mechanical Music Digest

  http://www.mmdigest.com/
  Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.

• MFA: Musical Instruments

  http://www.mfa.org/collections/musical-instruments
  Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

• 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.

• Musical Instrument Information

  http://www.oriscus.com/mi/
  Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.

• Musical Instrument Reference

  http://musicarrangers.com/instruments/
  Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range.

• 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.musica-mechanica.de/
  Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English/Deutsch].

• 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.

• The Classical Free-Reed, Inc.

  http://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.

• The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology

  http://www.imit.org.uk/
  The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.

• 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.

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