Links to Acoustics and Music Resources
Musical Instruments
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- Musical Instruments: General
- Smithsonian
Institution Music and Musical Instruments Collections
- Musical Instrument
Makers, Sources, and Services, a growing commercial database of
information for 34 countries, from the US to Russia. Organized by
country and type of instrument.
- Royal College of Music, London
- An index of
technical
drawings of a wide variety of musical instruments.
- International
Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections
- Musical Instruments: Early winds and strings (including instruments
faithful to early design principles)
- Douglas Gunn's Links
(Ireland) -- an extensive set of links on early musical instruments and
a variety of related subjects.
- Ancestral Instruments,
Mediaeval and Renaissance Bagpipes, Hornpipes, Shawms, Reedpipes,
Medieval Fiddles, Trombae Marina, Rebecs; downloadable .wav files of
many of the instruments
- Ardival Harps, including
clarsachs
- Boulder Early Music Shop;
recorders, early flutes, cornetts, viols, lutes, baroque violins, harps,
dulcimers, bagpipes, tabor pipes, percussion instruments
- Christopher
Monk Instruments; cornetts, serpents, and oboes
- Clive Morley Harps, Ltd.;
including original scroll head hookharps
- Dolmetsch Musical Instruments,
a workshop long famous for harpsichords is now also producing viols and
recorders
- Early Music Shop, "the
largest single source of early instruments worldwide"; including
Renaissance lute kits
- Merion David Attwood, Musical
Instrument Maker; viols, violin family and bows
- Phantasm, British viol
consort that has performed at Duke.
- The
Renaissance Consort, links assembled by a secondary school
- Musical Instruments: Electronic
- ICMA, the International
Computer Music Association site, including a wide variety of links
- Computer Music Journal
[includes tables of contents, texts of some articles, some sound files,
the complete MIDI specification documents, et c.]
- Classical MIDI Archives
hundreds of classical excerpts and whole works in .MID file form
- Electronic Music Foundation
- Akai
- Capybara
- E-mu Systems
- Fairlight CMI
- Kurzweil
Systems
- Moog Synthesizers.
This site includes detailed information on all the classic Moog analog
synthesizer modules -- including manuals from UC Santa Cruz. Many guitar
effects (pedals, etc.) essentially implement Moog synthesizer modules
and can best be understood through these archives.
- The late Robert Moog's current
company
- SynthZone, links to a variety
of commercial synthesizer resources
- Turtle Beach
- Roland
US
- Yamaha Musical Products
- Musical Instruments: Electric Guitar, Bass
- Fender
- Gibson
- Yamaha
- Musical Instruments: Acoustic Guitar
- Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated
Guide to the Internet
- Martin
- Olson
- Yamaha
- Musical Instruments: Percussion
- Avedis Zildjian
Cymbals
- Complete text and illustrations of a manual on
Steel Pan (often called "Steel
Drum" in the US) construction and tuning, by Ulf Kronman in Sweden.
- Excellent site with increasing amounts of information on the
Tabla, classical tuned
drums of India.
- Musical Instruments: Harpsichord, Clavichord, et c.
- The Russell Collection
of Early Keyboard Instruments, The University of Edinburgh,
Scotland
- Robert Deegan
Harpsichords
- Hubbard Harpsichords
- David Jensen Harpsichords
- Robert Morley & Co., Ltd.,
clavichord, spinets, harpsichord, virginals, and celestes; also early
pianos
- Gerald Self Harpsichords,
a shop in Texas that also provides services to kit builders.
- Sounds of
Harpsichords and related instruments
- Musical Instruments: Piano
- The Piano Page (Piano Technicians'
Guild)
- Baldwin
- Bechstein
- Bösendorfer
- John Broadwood and Sons
- Knabe
- Pleyel
- Steinway, a site that
includes some material from a CDROM factory tour.
- Yamaha
- The UK Piano Page
[menu with links to a variety of resources in the UK]
- Musical Instruments: Pipe Organ
- Organs of Duke
Chapel [Includes full text and illustrations from the 1976
dedicatory booklet for the Flentrop instrument located on the rear
gallery, a photographic tour of recent renovations to the 1932 Æolian
instrument located on either side of the choir, and a description of the
Brombaugh instrument installed in the Memorial Chapel during the summer
of 1997. Also includes sound files, samples from recent CDs of
performances on the Flentrop and Æolian.]
- Richards & Fowkes,
their Opus 16 is the instrument commissioned for the new Goodson Chapel,
Duke Divinity School
- American Guild of Organists,
professional organization site.
- American Institute of
Organbuilders, another professional organization.
- Associated Pipe Organ Builders of
America, ditto.
- Andover Organ Company
- C. B. Fisk, Designers and
Builders of Pipe Organs, Gloucester Massachusetts
- Casavant Frères of
Quebec
- Dobson
- Kern
- Noack
- Fratelli Ruffatti of Padua
- An Early
17th Century Organ now in a church in Smithfield, VA. An
interesting ongoing case, an example of the tension between conservation
of old instruments and maintaining their functionality for performances.
- The Theatre Organ Home Page
- Rodgers: A company
claiming to achieve pipe organ sounds by electronic means and producing
hybrid instruments combining pipes and electronically sampled sounds .
- Windesheim
Organ Art Museum. featuring instruments from the
Oberlinger collection.
- Musical Instruments: Violin and related strings
- Violin Making, by
Icelandic maker Hans Johannsson
- International
Violinmakers' School "A. Stradivari" in Cremona, Italy.
Includes a 45-photograph sequence on the construction of a fine violin.
- Catgut Acoustical Society,
including information on the violin octet and the Society's research and
publications.
- Ancient
Violin Secrets?
- Miscellaneous
- Kites, Æolian
Harps, and Æolian Flutes as musical instruments
Last modified and all links verified 21 June 2007.