Instrumental Music Resources

Early Music Google

Instrumental Music

Wikipedia: Musical instrument

An excellent collection of articles from Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopedia.

Galpin Society

The Galpin Society publishes original research into the history, construction, development and use of musical instruments.

American Musical Instrument Society

AMIS is an international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods.

Chamber Music America

The mission of Chamber Music America is to develop and strengthen an evolving chamber music community.

Musical Instrument Information

A directory with hundreds of links to musical instrument resources.

CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia

An infobase of musical instruments from around the world, organized by instrument type and by country of origin.

World Musical Instrument Gallery

An annotated gallery of world musical instruments from Randy Raine-Reusch's massive collection.

MFA Musical Instruments

A gallery of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts' collection of nearly 1,200 instruments.

Works of Art: Musical Instruments

Selected instruments from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Musical Instruments collection.

National Music Museum

The National Music Museum and Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments' renowned collections include more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.