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Guitar and other instruments Find on this page Press Enter to find. In Netscape, repeat Enter for further occurrences In Internet Explorer, Ctrl + Home, click in the box again, then Enter for next occurrence Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source Uke 4 U PC multimedia computer program teaches ukulele - freeware version available http://two-tix.com/ukulele.html The Quest To Build A Mandolin features luthier Lyn Dudenbostel. There's also a Guitar Quest The Autoharp Page at http://www.autoharp.org/ Some nice pics of guitar construction including French polishing at Milburn Guitars http://www.milburnguitars.com/ The history and art of playing blues harp Davy Rogers' traditional Irish guitar tabs & MIDIs plus lots of useful links http://www.davyrogers.com/ Archtop.com - specialists in vintage archtop guitars http://www.archtop.com/ Hardanger fiddle - audio samples and links http://www.hfaa.org/audio/index.shtml Wulffenstejn hardanger fiddles at http://www.hardingfele.com/ Stacy Phillips' dobro and fiddle page includes some sample lessons and tunes http://www.stacyphillips.com/ Joe Zsigray's Mountain Dulcimer Page has learning materials for sale http://www.zsigray.com/md.index.html Also links to other mountain dulcimer sites http://www.zsigray.com/md.links.html Lots of links for guitar players at Play Guitar http://www.vmcguitar.com/related/resources.htm Want to know about lap steel guitars? Brad's Page of Steel is a good starting point http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/steel.html Maui Music 8-string Ukulele http://www.ukes.com/ukes.html Ukulele FAQ courtesy Kawika http://www.ukuleles.com/HouseKeeping/FAQ.htm Lots of goodies for flatpickers at the Bluegrass Guitar home page http://www.bluegrassguitar.com/ Bouzouki World at http://www.nvo.com/bouzouki/door/ - includes discussion page http://www.nvo.com/bouzouki/yearlybonus/ Hammered dulcimer session tunes in RealAudio at http://www.dulcimers.com/evartmusic.shtml How to play blues harmonica (well, getting started!) Making An Archtop Guitar by Robert Benedetto - "the definitive work on the design and construction of an acoustic archtop guitar" http://www.musicbooksplus.com/books/hl296.htm Old Time Fiddle Music "the clearinghouse for all things fiddle" http://www.fiddlers.org/ Loads of guitar tabs and other guitar stuff at Mike Wright's Flatpick Guitar http://www.raccoonbend.com/flatpick/fp_main.html Bazar (bouzouki-guitar) by Jimmy Moon courtesy Skip M Would you like a digital Les Paul, or even a Loar? http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030124S0035 Sad news of the death of guitar historian Mike Longworth The Rebec Project http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/rebec.html Vintage Guitar Info has lots of useful reference material http://www.provide.net/~cfh/ Links for tons of Gibson instrument info including serial numbers http://www.gibson.com/pure/exchange/downloads.html OLGA, the On Line Guitar Archive, has loads of useful tab and other goodies http://www.olga.net/ Tim O'Brien's site includes info about his Nugget bouzouki http://timobrien.net/bb_threads.cfm Ancient Tones - "the bouzouki's long journey from rembetika to rock 'n' roll and beyond" by Paul Kotapish http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag89/bouzouki.html Cittern list on Yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cittern/ The Cittern and Mandolin Image Gallery courtesy Mike Berro http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/mando/gallery/ Cittern and Mandolin home page http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/mando/index.html "The world's most complete source for the double bassist" http://www.lemurmusic.com/ Maximum Musician offers help for guitarists and others - learn about improvising, playing by ear, how to stay motivated, and more http://www.maximummusician.com/ Good links page at http://www.maximummusician.com/mmlinks.htm Tutorial at Milburn Guitars on French polishing a guitar http://www.milburnguitars.com/fpbannerframes.html Gibson mandolin, banjo and dobro with exotic vine inlay http://www.fqms.com/vinecollection.htm Primo Violins "represents quality instruments at affordable prices" http://www.primoviolins.com/ Judi Morningstar's Dulcimer Page includes music books for hammered dulcimer William Laskin Guitars site - includes some very fancy inlay http://www.williamlaskin.com/ New URL for Earnest uncommon musical instruments (including mandos) http://www.earnestinstruments.com/ Daniel Larson historical instruments includes mandolins http://www.daniellarson.com/index.htm Ultimate Guitar links - an archive of links, plus a resource for repairing and customizing guitars http://go.to/UGL Flatpick guitar links at Plectrology site http://www.plectrology.org/links.htm D J Hodson builds Maccaferri style jazz guitars http://www.hodsonjazzguitars.com/ Dwight Mark's collection of stringed instruments (including mandos) http://www.dwightmark.com/MoreInstruments.htm Page about the oud http://www.americaslibrary.gov/pages/sh_oddball_string_1.html Han's Irish Bouzouki Home Page - lots of useful links http://home.hccnet.nl/h.speek/bouzouki/ Pics of Old Wave Parlor jazz guitar http://community.webshots.com/album/27891255gHKDeizLEz Hammertone octave twelve string guitar at http://www.guitarclinic.com/octavetwelve.htm Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop and Vestapol Videos http://www.guitarvideos.com/ Bluegrass harmonica group at Yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bluegrassharp/ Hammered dulcimer site with lots of tunes in MIDI form and useful links http://www.dulcimers.com/ Some useful jazz and swing guitar links at the Rosenberg Trio site http://www.rosenberg-trio.com/RoPg7aFf.htm Knutsen mandoharp pics at http://users.bestweb.net/~jgarber/instrpic/knutmh1.jpg and http://users.bestweb.net/~jgarber/instrpic/knutmh2.jpg Some Mexican instruments at Lark In The Morning Bossanova Guitar - a big resource site including chords, lyrics and sound files http://www.bossanovaguitar.com Tenor Guitar Registry - "the one stop shop for tenor guitar enthusiasts" http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/tenorguitarregistry Another tenor guitar page at http://www.tenorguitar.com/ Flatpick and finger style technique (for guitar) http://www.tuckandpatti.com/pick-finger_tech.html GuitarInternet - good guitar links site plus mandolins and other instruments http://www.guitarinternet.com/ Guitar Notes - huge resource with excellent links http://www.guitarnotes.com/ Steve Swan specialty guitar dealer (offers some nice looking dreadnoughts) http://www.steveswanguitars.com/ Guitars Rule - includes some useful-looking software http://www.guitarsrule.com Tenor banjo website http://www.cats.se/banjo/index.html Acoustic Music Supply Shop Play It Again Sam - store with lots of mandolin interest http://www.guitarsam.com/catalog/mandolincatalog.htm Dulcimer Players News has links to the dulcimer world http://www.dpnews.com/section_home.html The Kitchen Musician - lots of hammered dulcimer music (GIF and MIDI formats), which they helpfully point out can be played on mandolin http://members.aol.com/kitchiegal/kmmusic4.html#anchor5887148 The Official WWW Hammered Dulcimer Page - loads of music and links http://www.rtpnet.org/~hdweb/ Dusty Strings make harps and hammered dulcimers (they also sell mandolins) http://www.dustystrings.com/ Guitar Base - lots of mandolins for sale http://gbase.com/ Bluegrass guitar tabs at http://www.bluegrassguitar.com/songtab.htm Guitar Primer - lots of music and chords on this site http://www.guitar-primer.com/ charts for jazz standards at http://guitar-primer.com/Charts/index2.html Fiddle players' discussion list http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/fiddle-l.html Mark O'Connor's site - includes a fiddle forum http://www.markoconnor.com/ The tululele combines the sound of an acoustic uke with the look of a classic electric guitar http://www.ctel.net/~earnest/tululele.html D J Hodson jazz guitars http://www.hodsonjazzguitars.com/ Musician's Friend is "the largest direct mail and online musical equipment company in the world" http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ex/ds/home/ The Banjo Hangout - worth a look, has some useful info, including a software page http://www.banjohangout.org/ Banjo tablatures and bluegrass information http://www.bluegrassbanjo.org/index.html Fretted Instruments School of guitar and banjo - good links page for bluegrassers and others http://www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com/ Daniel Nestlerode's guitar & mandolin links - great page! http://home.mindspring.com/~dnestler/links.htm Music For Little People - includes instruments for children and suitable recordings, including folk, country and blues http://musicforlittlepeople.com/ Beard resophonic guitars and parts http://www.beardguitars.com Lead slide guitar list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeadSlideGuitar Big guitar site, including links to other tab sites http://www.rukind.com/ Guitar Principles - some useful ideas about learning to play, which are also applicable to mandolin http://www.guitarprinciples.com/index.html Fretted Friends Music - guitar site, including live webcam http://www.frettedfriends.com/ McCabe's Guitar Shop http://www.mccabesguitar.com/index.html Mike Berro's Cittern and Mandolin site - lots of useful stuff, many links http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/mando/ WholeNote - the on-line guitar community, great site for guitar learners http://www.wholenote.com/ Big flatpick guitar tab database http://www.pnx.com/thebrowns/jim/flatpicking/tablature.asp?page=home Good page on flatpicking guitar (and check out the rest of Robert Shafer's site) http://home.att.net/~flatpicker/ Lute links http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/other_lute.html Elloree guitars and mandolins, also some other instruments - quite unusual designs and prices look good http://www.angelfire.com/la2/elloree/ Hoffman guitars - large site, lots of links http://www.hoffmanguitars.com/ Musician's Friend "the largest direct mail and online musical equipment company in the world" http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ Acoustic instruments and winter care - thought-provoking article by Scott Zimmerman at http://www.paulhawthorne.com/wintercare.html Steve Swan Guitars (he also sells mandolins!) http://www.steveswanguitars.com/ Samick site (Korean instrument manufacturers) http://www.samick.co.kr/samick998/englishhtml/english.htm Here are some archive links for occasional perusal - thanks to Niles Hokkanen for providing these: Irish trad http://listserv.heanet.ie/lists/irtrad-l.html Fingerstyle guitar http://www.egroups.com/group/fingerstyle-l Flatpick-L http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/flatpick-l.html Bluegrass-L http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/bgrass-l.html Cittern-L (must sign up to access archives) http://www.egroups.com/group/cittern http://www.egroups.com/messages/cittern/ Irish tenor banjo http://209.157.67.53/pipermail/tenor_banjo/ 4-string banjo (jazz/dixieland) http://www.egroups.com/group/fourstringbanjo Tenor guitar club on Yahoo http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/tenorguitarregistry Review of Clarence White, 33 Guitar Instrumentals CD http://www.flatpick.com/Pages/News_And_Reviews/Reviews/Review.php?review=clarence Music Salon Wanderlust - interesting site, wide variety of musical styles including bluegrass mando http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/mitsuno/ Canadian guitar site, lots of mando interest http://www.acousticguitar.net/home.htm A Texas fiddle site with some instruction material http://www.texasfiddling.com/ Shelley Park makes Maccaferri style guitars http://www.parkguitars.com/ Allen guitars, mandolins, resophonics and luthier supplies http://www.allenguitar.com/ Lots of links into the Ukulele World http://www.ukuleleworld.com/ Construction of ukuleles http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/FieldTrips/Kamaka/kamaka.html Flatpicking and acoustic guitar links http://www.flatpick.com/Pages/Flatpicking_Links/Flatpicking_Links.html Stacy Phillips' dobro site, lots of useful musical links http://www.well.com/user/wellvis/phillips.html Large site with lots of links, including a mando page http://www.12fret.com/ The guitar playing of Richard Thompson http://people.netcom.co.uk/r.kendrick/rt/transc.htm Big guitar site http://www.guitarsite.com/ Good guitar site - lots of links into the guitar world http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/#pro

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