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MFA: Musical Instruments - http://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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CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia - http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos. |
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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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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. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NIU Musical Instrument Collection - http://www.engineering.usu.edu/ece/faculty/wheeler/NIU/
Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type. |