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About: Entertainment: Arts and entertainment resources, includiing books, movies, TV, performing arts and a collection of links relating to musical instruments, artists and genres.
Author: General Internet
Subjects: art links, musical instruments
DeweyClass: 700
Resource type: index
CIMCIM/AMIS International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections: This directory, created jointly by CIMCIM and the American Musical Instrument Society, provides information about collections of musical instruments held across the world. A work in progress, the directory aims to develop in its geographic coverage and content, and provide links to further museum and collection home pages.
Author: CIMCIM and American Musical Instrument Society
Subjects: music collections, musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: directory
Clarsach.net: Contains information regarding the Scottish Gaelic clarsach. Includes a comprehensive history of the instrument and advice on learning and caring for the clarsach. Lessons, articles, video demonstration clips, and music clips are also provided.
Author: Wire Branch of the Clarsach Society
Subjects: music education, musical instruments, stringed instruments
DeweyClass: 787.95
Resource type: documents, guide
Different Music Periods and Specific Composers: Links to information on instruments and music of specific time periods, together with an alphabetical index of biographical notes on individual composers.
Author: Osborn, Tracey
Subjects: music composition, musical instruments, musicians
DeweyClass: 780.9
Resource type: index
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments: Information about the collection, catalogues, and an electronic picture gallery of instruments.
Author: Edinburgh University
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: images
Galpin Society: Formed in October 1946 for the publication of original research into the history, construction, development and use of musical instruments, the Galpin Society is a membership organisation, based at the University of Edinburgh, which encompasses the study of all kinds of musical instruments worldwide.
Author: Kilbey, Maggie
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: documents
Instrumental Music Resource Page: Information and advice on beginning to learn a musical instrument, teachers' tools and music education resources.
Author: Traugh, Dan
Subjects: music education, musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: documents
intermusic.com: Information on musicians, equipment, techniques, news and reviews for music makers.
Author: Future Publishing
Subjects: computer music, electroacoustic music, musical instruments, musicians, percussion instruments, popular music
DeweyClass: 780.92
Resource type: index, news
Jedistar: Large directory of musical instruments, focusing on guitars, amplifiers and drums. Information is indexed by A-Z for each of the main sections, which include guitars and luthiers, amplifiers and effects, and drums and cymbals.
Author: Carroll, Paul
Subjects: guitars, music links, musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: directory, images, index
Museum of Musical Instruments: Virtual museum providing an insight into examples of 19th and 20th Century musical instruments. Collections cover various types of guitar including dreadnoughts and flamenco style instruments, and a series of articles and information about instrument manufacturers is included.
Author: Museum of Musical Instruments
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: museum
Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia: Illustrated articles on musical instruments, arranged by instrument type, by Sachs-Hornbostel classification headings and by country of origin.
Author: University of Michigan School of Information
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: reference documents
Musical Instruments Described: Brief descriptions of a range of musical instruments, arranged alphabetically by name, and accompanied by an illustration where possible. Includes details of the baryton, bowed psaltery, dulcian, krummhorn, lute, recorder, serpent, and vulcan lyre.
Author: Arthur, D. Glenn
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: document, images
Percussion Instruments: Instruments that are sounded by striking, shaking, plucking, or scraping.
Author: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
Subjects: music education, musical instruments, percussion instruments
DeweyClass: 786.8
Resource type: guide
Repertoire Online: Offers a collection of public domain sheet music from the 1870s to the 1940s and links to a selection of complementary music resources.
Author: Savadge, Marcia
Subjects: music collections, musical instruments
DeweyClass: 780
Resource type: documents, index
Research Guides (Music Library): Bibliographies offering both primary and secondary sources relating to various musical instruments, including oboe, bassoon, clarinet, tuba and violincello organised in chronological order. Downloadable as PDFs.
Author: Indiana University
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 788
Resource type: bibliography
Sibelius Academy: Musical Instruments: Index to selected resources related to a wide variety of musical instruments, including the accordion, banjo, harmonium, jazz instruments, reed organs and voice.
Author: Sibelius Academy
Subjects: musical instruments
DeweyClass: 784.19
Resource type: index