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Links
Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments
http://www.didjshop.com/austrAboriginalMusicInstruments.htm
Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.
CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos.
Experimental Musical Instruments
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.
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.
Mechanical Music Digest
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/artemis/collections/mi.htm
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
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.
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.
Musiciansnews.com
News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions.
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.

