Music: By Subject Subject Guide

Instruments

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General resources about instruments. See other categories such as Brass, Keyboard, Percussion, String/Plectral, Woodwinds.

Books about Instruments

General, Ref ML 102 .I5, ML 460-; Keyboard, ML 549-; Strings, ML 750-; Winds, ML 930-; Plectral, ML 1000-; Percussion, ML 1030-; other, ML 1050-1093; Pedagogy, MT 170-733

Instrument Encyclopedia

Information about instruments around the world, beginning with the collection of the Stearns Museum at the University of Michigan. Good starting place for research. Links.

New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

Ref ML 102 .I5 N48 1984
The largest encyclopedia about instruments. See other reference books on instruments at Ref ML 102 .I5.

Microsoft Musical Instruments

Located at the CD-ROM station in Music and Dance Library. Illustrates and describes instruments, with sound examples.

National Music Museum

Founded at the University of South Dakota at Vermillion in 1973, the NMM contains more than 15,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments. Their site includes a virtual tour as well as checklists of some of the instruments with brief descriptions and images.

Virtual Instrument Museum

Information about and images of hundreds of musical instruments from around the world. Includes audio and video files.

International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections

A directory of public and private instrument collections worldwide, listed by location. Search by location or name of museum or collection.

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