Connections and References

A selected list of websites and published resources about musical instruments.

Websites

• Alphorn
• Clarinet Player's Homepage
• The Didgeridoo Homepage
• Drum Encyclopedia
• Drums and Percussion Page
• Hammered Dulcimer Frequently Asked Questions
• Prairie Dulcimer Club
• Mark Shepherd's Flute Page:Tips on How to Play & Make Flutes
• Books and Articles on Historical Flutes (Folkers & Powell)
• Historic Harp Society
• Lutes in Arto Wikla's Music Page
• Musical Instruments at the Exploratorium
• PianoNanny.com...Piano on the NET
• Pipe Organs and Related Topics
• Recorder Home Page
• International Saxophone Page
• Theremin Playing Techniques
• Trombone Page of the World
• Trumpet Player's International Network
• Viola da Gamba Society of America
  
  

• Baines, Anthony. The Oxford companion to musical instruments. Oxford; New York: Oxford, University Press, 1992.
• Borders, James M. European and American Wind and Percussion Instruments; Catalogue of the Stearns Collection. Ann Arbor: U Michigan, 1988.
• Buchanan, Joan. Music in our lives : the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians : music, instruments, legends. Vancouver: Western Education Development Group, 1980.
• Buchner, Alexander. Musical Instruments: an illustrated history. New York: Crown, 1973.
• Cooler, Richard M. The Karen bronze drums of Burma: types, iconography, manufacture, and use. New York: E.J. Brill, 1995.
• Coover, James. Musical Instrument Collections: Catalogues and Cognate Literature. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1981.
• DeVale, Sue Carole, ed. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology: Organology. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1990.
• Diamond, Beverley, Sam Cronk and Franziska von Rosen. Visions of Sound: Musical instruments in Northeastern Native Communities. Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1994.
• Drums, the heartbeat of Africa. Montreal, Canada: Galerie Amrad African Art, 1993.
• Hart, Mickey. Planet drum: A celebration of percussion and rhythm. New York: Harper, 1991.
• Hyslop, Graham. Musical Instruments of East Africa. Nairobi: Nelson, 1985.
• International directory of musical instrument collections Buren (Gld.), Netherlands : Frits Knuf for International Council of Museums (ICOM), 1977.
• Kartomi, Margaret J. On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago: Studies in Ethnomusicology. Chicago and London: U Chicago Press, 1990.
• Keyboard musical instruments in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994.
• Lichtenwanger, William, et al, compiler. A Survey of Musical Instrument Collections in the United States and Canada. Music Library Association: 1974.
• My music reaches the Sky: Native American Musical Instruments. New York: Ford Foundation, 1973.
• The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. 3 vols. London: Macmillan, 1984.
• Otter, Elisabeth den . Pre-Columbian musical instruments. Amsterdam: KIT-Tropenmuseum, 1994.
• Shen, Sin-yan. Chinese music and orchestration: a primer on principles and practice. Chicago: Chines Music Society of North America, 1991.
• Taylor, Eric. Musical Instruments of South East Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Waring, Dennis. Making Wood Folk Instruments. New York: Sterling, 1990.