Instruments Websites

Devoted to the devices and their use, design, history, and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English/Deutsch].

News from the music industry and professional recording and P.A. technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news. [English/Deutsch]

Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves. Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail.

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.

Annotated internet directory, and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions.

The main professional body covering the music industry. Features publication and membership details.

Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula.

Descriptions and images of the didjeridu, bullroarer, gum-leaf, and clapsticks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brief descriptions and photographs.

Resource for teachers and students. Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range.

Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.