Open Directory - Arts: Music: Instruments
See also: This category in other languages: - Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range. - 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. - Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks. - Information categorized geographically and by type. Features histories and photos. - Collection built around a 2000 bequest of 400 instruments and 100 paintings from a Duke alumnus. Details of exhibits and performances. - 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. - Brief descriptions and photographs. - 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. - Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula. - Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography. - Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail. - 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. - Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions. - News for musicians about instruments, artists and competitions. - Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type. - News from the music industry and professional recording and P.A. technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news. [English/Deutsch] - 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. - The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details. - Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
