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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Musical Instrument Reference - http://musicarrangers.com/instruments/
Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range. |
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Musiciansnews.com - http://www.musiciansnews.com/
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions. |
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Face Music: Traditional Instruments of the Mongolia People - http://www.face-music.ch/instrum/mongolia_instrum.html
Brief descriptions and photographs. |
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Musical Instrument Information - http://www.oriscus.com/mi/
Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions. |
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Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments - http://www.didjshop.com/austrAboriginalMusicInstruments.htm
Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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]. |
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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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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] |