Instruments

Frets and Strings

The following links point to world music for guitar and other string instrument resources:

• African Kora. A web site devoted to kora music.
• Charango. History and tuning of this small lute from South America.
• Crossroads. Learn to play guitar with streaming videos, sound clips, tablature, and live on-line lessons.
• Chord House, Online Chord Finder. This interactive chord finder quickly displays hundreds of guitar and piano chords in the familiar graphical way.
• Free-Tabs. A site that provides thousands of free guitar tabs and chords.
• Geomungo. Korean stringed musical instrument site.
• Gitarre Spielen. Guitar tablature site.
• Guitarralatina.com. Flamenco guitar from the Panebianco & Del Monaco ensemble.
• Guitar Tabs Archive. Free guitar tabs and chords.
• Guitar Tab Sites. Links to top guitar sites.
• Guitar Tony. Free online guitar lessons for beginners.
• GuitarTricks. Over 3,000 online guitar lesssons.
• Love Supreme. Santana/McLaughlin website dedicated to McLaughlin's collaboration with Carlos Santana.
• Oud.gr. A web site about the Middle-Eastern musical instrument oud, or ud, a lute, with Nikos Dimitriadis, from Greece, who gives descriptions and plays various improvisations (taqasims)
• Niibori Guitar World. The Niibori Guitar Orchestra uses 27 types of Niibori guitars and the "Niibori Method" (formally approved by 20 countries) originated by Dr. Niibori in Japan. Their policies are: "Promote world peace through music" and "Serve good music to be a nourishment for your soul."
• Progetto Chitarre Acustiche. A portal of the acoustic guitar, in Italian.
• Scalloped Fretboard Guitar. A homepage for the scalloped fretboard guitar, an instrument combining aspects of the South Indian vina and the steel string guitar to allow for greater note-bending capability.
  • Yngwie Malmsteen Fan Club. Fan club of the virtuoso rock guitarist. Includes information on the special scalloped fretboard version of the Fender Stratocaster that was released in his honor.
• South Indian Vina Music for Guitar. South Indian vina music arranged in guitar tablature.
• Steel Guitar in Indian Music. Covers artists playing North Indian classical music on slide guitar.
• TablEdit Tablature Editor. TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments.
• Volin HQ. A great site related to the topic of violins.

General

• Instrument Catalogs. Links to catalogs of instruments from around the world.

Percussion

• Rhythm. Links about percussion and rhythm.

Winds

• Dajoeri. New site for panpipe and panflute.
• didge.net. Australian site for info about didjeridus - includes 'DIDJNEWS' newsletter.
• Didjeridu.com. This site features educational information about the didjeridu as told by Aboriginal Artists and leading writers in the field of contemporary music.
• Didjshop.com. Large collection of authentic Aboriginal didjeridus. Providing individual pictures and MP3-sound. Also bullroarers and clapsticks.
  Dreamtime WWW Site. Provides information concerning all aspects of the didjeridu.
• Learn2pipe.com. Learn to pipe!
• MGL Industries. We specialize in products of Scottish design, such as Bagpipes and accessories.
• Pan Flutes. Click on a rare flute to hear its sound. Read about the myths and histories of the instruments.
• Shakuhachi Flute Resource Page. Resource page for the traditional Japanese bamboo flute. Instruments, playing guides, craft manuals, sheet music, recordings and more.