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• Pro-Music-News - News from the music industry and professional recording and P A technology and well as keyboards and percussion product news [English Deutsch]
• Mechanical Music Digest - Moderated forum about musical instruments that play themselves Published daily on the Internet and distributed primarily by e-mail
• Experimental Musical Instruments - Online archives of quarterly journal devoted to interesting and unusual musical instruments and sound sources along with sales of instruments and guides on how to make and play them
• Society for Self-playing Musical Instruments - Devoted to the devices and their use design history and sale with links to museums and related organizations [English Deutsch]
• The Institute Of Musical Instrument Technology - The main professional body covering the music industry  Features publication and membership details
• The Classical Free-Reed Inc - Offers information about free reed instruments including the accordion bayan concertina harmonica sheng and reed organ Includes definitions descriptions history articles reviews and a performers directory
• Musical Instrument Reference - Resource for teachers and students Modern musical instruments transposition concert pitch and best sounding range
• Musical Automata - Systematic recording project begun in 1980 documenting mechanical music devices from Vienna and Prague with CDs available for sale beginning in 1999 Headed by Helmut Kowar of Phonogrammarchiv the audiovisual research archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• World Musical Instrument Gallery - Descriptions photographs and some sound samples of instruments in Randy Raine-Reusch s large collection
• Iberian Folk Instruments - Photographs descriptions and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula
• MFA Musical Instruments - Photographs and information about instruments in the extensive collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Frequencies and Ranges - A table of extremely low musical notes matching frequencies with instruments able to play them Links to pictures and articles including a subcontrabass clarinet built especially to play C-2 or 4 cycles per second
• Musical Instrument Information - Annotated internet directory and a help desk for personal assistance with your questions
• Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments - Descriptions and images of the didjeridu bullroarer gum-leaf and clapsticks
• Taxonomy of Musical Instruments by Henry Doktorsi - Chart based on a 1914 scheme by Sachs and von Hornbostel classifies orchestral folk and electronic instruments into families A second chart maps the free-reed family which includes harmonicas and concertinas supported by a scholarly history of free-reeds
• Face Music Traditional Instruments of the Mongolia People - Brief descriptions and photographs