Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type.
Descriptions, photographs, and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch's large collection.
Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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.
Photographs and descriptions of traditional instruments, article on ensembles, glossary, and bibliography.
Brief descriptions and photographs.
Offers information about free reed instruments including the accordian, bayan, concertina, harmonica, sheng and reed organ. Includes definitions, descriptions, history, articles, reviews and a performers directory.
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.
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