Instruments
Frets and Strings • Percussion • Winds
Frets and Strings
The following links point to world music for guitar and other string instrument resources:
- Charango. History and tuning of this small lute from South America.
- MatthewMontfort.Com. Website of scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort. Guitar lessons, music production, and more.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- Wechter Guitars. Abe Wechter built John McLaughlin's scalloped fretboard guitar.
Percussion
- Rhythm. Links about percussion and rhythm warrant their own page.
Winds
- Panfloeten.ch. Site for panpipe and panflute.
- Didjshop.com. Large collection of authentic Aboriginal didjeridus. Providing individual pictures and MP3-sound. Also bullroarers and clapsticks.
- Pan Flutes. Click on a rare flute to hear its sound. Read about the myths and histories of the instruments.
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