Topics: Music : Instruments
For sites about specific instruments and their families. Subjects include musical range and tone, technical specifications, history, and instrument making, manufacture and repair.
Education
Sites providing free instrument education, or about instrument education.Teachers can be found in the Regional part of the directory listed according to where they teach.
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Electronic
Producing musical sounds by electronic means, including synthesizers, samplers, and electronic keyboards.
Mellotrons and Optigans,
MIDI Controllers,
Synthesizers and Samplers,
Theremin,
Vocoders,
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Events
Concerts, festivals, and competitions that focus on a particular musical instrument or instrument family.
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Indian
Information about the musical instruments of India.
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Japanese
General sites about Japanese musical instruments.
Makers,
Organizations,
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Keyboard
Type of instrument in which a set of levers, or keys, actuate sound. This includes instruments with hammered or plucked strings such as the piano and harpsichord, wind-blown instruments such as the organ, keyboard-actuated electronic synthesizers, and electro-mechanical electric pianos.
Early,
Electric Pianos,
Harpsichord,
Magazines and E-zines,
Makers,
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Magazines and E-zines
Magazines and e-zines that focus on musical instruments in general.
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Makers
For companies and individual craft workers making musical instruments, both professional and amateur. This top-level category is for sites covering instruments in more than one musical family.
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B,
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G,
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K,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R,
S,
T,
U,
V,
W,
X,
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Manufacturers
Companies making musical instruments in quantity for distribution and sales through dealers. Distinguished from instrument makers, who are generally artisans making instruments singly or in small batches, and either selling them directly to musicians or through one or two retailers.
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Middle Eastern
Web sites in this category offer information about musical instruments that are traditional to the Middle East.
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Native American
A directory containing listings of Native American musical instruments.
Books-Instructions,
Drums and Rattles,
Forums-Circles,
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Percussion
Used to describe instruments played either by striking a membrane such as a drum or a piece of hard material such as wood, metal or plastic (for example, a cymbal), or by shaking (such as a tambourine).
Angklung,
Bells,
Berimbau,
Cymbal,
Directories,
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Squeezebox
Any of the bellows-driven free-reed instruments, including accordion, concertina, melodeon, bandoneon and other relatives.
Accordion,
Concertina,
Events,
Makers,
Manufacturers,
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Stringed
One of three principal families (with winds and percussion) in European classification. Sound is produced by plucking or drawing a bow across one or more strings held in tension.
Artists,
Autoharp,
Banjo,
Bass,
Bouzouki,
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Winds
One of three principal families in Western classification (with strings and percussion), these are instruments played by blowing or drawing air through them.
Bagpipe,
Brass,
Didgeridoo,
Education,
Harmonica,
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