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Accumulated Accordion Annotations

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/phoebe/mosaic/accordion.html

Links to all sorts of information about accordions, including general information, and a bibliography of accordion related works. Distilled from the FAQ of an accordion-related mailing list.

Author: Phoebe Sengers

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Accordion; Repair; Bibliography; FAQ

Antique Vintage Guitars

http://www.guitarhq.com/

A site dedicated to vintage guitars, created by "a private collector interested in vintage instruments by Gibson, Fender, Martin, Gretsch, Epiphone, National, Dobro, Rickenbacker, D'Angelico, Stromberg, Hofner, Danelectro, Coral, Kay made from 1920 to 1970. This includes both electric and acoustic vintage guitars." The site has sections for each manufacturer, with history, descriptive information about models, and lots of photographs; a bibliography; feature articles; a picture gallery; appraisal information and more.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: guitars

The Ceolas Celtic Music Archive

http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html

Information about Celtic/Irish music, including discographies of Celtic artists and upcoming tour schedules, and information about Celtic instruments.

Author: Gerard Manning

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--World

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--European/European-American--Celtic

Keywords: World; Artists; Discographies; Celtic; Irish

Computer Music Bibliography

ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography.html

This is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic music collected from various sources. A very long text file.

Author: Piet van Oostrum (piet@cs.ruu.nl)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Computer; MIDI; Electronic; Bibliography

The Drums and Percussion Info Page

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/Drum/info.html

All sorts of information about drums and other percussion instruments, including an impressive Percussion Encyclopedia, a bibliography and a FAQ.

Author: Jeff Lewis

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Drum; Percussion; Encyclopedia; Bibliography; FAQ

Electric Guitar

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/guitars/index.htm

"This exhibit features instruments that illustrate how innovative makers and players combined the guitar with a pickup (sensor) and amplifier to create a new instrument and a new sound that profoundly changed popular music--blues, country, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll--in the 20th century."

Author: National Museum of American History

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Audio Equipment & Technology

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Pop, Rock & Alternative

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Rock music

Gibson Reference Collection

http://www.gibson.com/reference/

Information on how to buy an electric guitar; instrument care, tuning, bridge adjustment, stringing and maintaining; adjusting the truss rod and the bridge. Also includes a section on the history of the Gibson guitar and famous songs played with the guitar.

Author: Gibson Musical Instruments (WebGuys@gibson.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Guitar

intermusic.com

http://www.intermusic.com/

"intermusic.com is the new network of great web sites for anyone who wants to make music. Looking for impartial, well-informed buying advice? Here you'll find thousands of unbiased gear reviews, from retro synths to the latest guitars, written by professional musicians, and all searchable by model and manufacturer. And our reader reviews feature lets you rate and review the gear too. You'll also find tutorials and advice onevery aspect of music making, from stringing a guitar to setting up a DJ turntable. Plus star interviews, free music downloads, daily news and comment, webcasts, competitions and much, much more." Other features include samples available for downloading and a music shareware site.

Author: Future Publishing

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Audio Equipment & Technology

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: recording; drums; software; samplers; audio

MHN Instrument Encyclopedia

http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/enclpdia.html

A Yahoo! Pick of the Week (10-26-98), the Instrument Encyclopedia "Begins with more than 140 artifacts from the Sterns Collection at the University of Michigan" and "features musical instruments from around the world." Searchable by name, geographic region, building materials used and the Sachs Hobostel classification scheme, the database provides users with instrument images, textual descriptions and an occasional sound file. Please Note: a frames-capable browser is required.

Author: Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach (chico.admin@umich.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Keywords: instrument; music; CHICO; Stearns

Online Guitar Archive (OLGA)

http://www.olga.net/

An archive of guitar music in tablature format, with indexes. Files are in text format. This main site will direct you to a variety of Web sites, FTP sites, and search engines for the archives.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Guitar; Tablature

Pianonet.com

http://www.pianonet.com/

"As the official Web site of the National Piano Foundation,PianoNet is your comprehensive guide to everything aboutpianos‹their history, their manufacture, noted artists,important publications and more."

Author: National Piano Foundation (npf_info@pianonet.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Keywords: Piano; Pianists

rec.music.a-cappella Frequently Asked Questions

http://sunsite.org.uk/public/usenet/news-faqs/rec.music.a-cappella/

FAQ for the Usenet group rec.music.a- cappella, dealing with both performing and listening to unaccompanied music vocals.

Author: Brendan Quinn (casa@casa.org)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: Voice; Vocal; A Capella

The Saint-Petersburg Museum of Musical Instruments

http://www.stormloader.com/collection/index.htm

"The Museum possesses one of the largest collections in the world...more than 3000 items, and the major part of them are rare or unique." This site makes the wonderful collection accessible to everybody, including pictures, data banks, the collection's catalogue, as well as guided tours and news items.

Author: Pavel Andreyev & Vasily Smirnov (andreyev@mail.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

WholeNote - The On-Line Guitar Community

http://itp.nyu.edu/wholenote/

"WholeNote is an on-line community for guitarists. The main principle behind the development of the site was to provide tools for those that are knowledgeable to create on-line lessons from which other visitors can learn, thereby creating a collective knowledge that all can use to further their own playing, and to allow visitors to access this knowledge in a fast and intuitive manner." In addition to the ability to create and take guitar lessons and create compositions, this site provides users with the following resources: news, recommended resources and reviews, discussion forums, and full databases of chords, scales, and arpeggios.

Author: Christopher Sung and Sean Kelly

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Performance--Instruments

Keywords: guitar

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