STRINGS

CONTENTS

Double Bass
Dulcimers
Harps
Period Instruments
(Other) Stringed Instruments
Banjos
Violins, Cellos, Violas, String Bass
Guitars
Electric Guitar
Ukulele
Lute, Mandolin

[ Dulcimers ]

Dulcimer Page

[ Lute/Mandolin ]

Arto Wikla's Music Page
Federation of Australasian Mandolin Ensembles Inc. (F.A.M.E.)
Mandolin Brothers, The famous Staten Island, NY guitar-banjo-mandolin store. The place Joni Mitchell sings about, and the Fairport Convention writes about.

[ Ukulele ]

The 4th Peg, Ukulele Parlor Room, Learning Center and Emporium.
Froggy's Novelty Song Lyrics, good site for lyrics a great many old novelty songs.
Aloha World, Hawaii Real Estate for sale.
The Hekili Collection, Information on vintage Ukes.
Brudda Bu's Ukulele Site
Chordfinder, Excellently done. For all 4 string instruments PLUS guitar and Piano.
Gerry Dallal's Chord Generator, excellent program.
E-Z Folk, Richard Hefner’s instructional site for banjo, folk guitar, and ukulele, with a huge list of links.
Hawaii Ukulele Guide
Ken's Ukes4All, Nice page... Ken spells it "ukelele"!
Ki Ho 'Alu Net, Kent Lee Brisby's Links page. Nice.
Learn to Play the Ukelele, Ponk Records Site
Notecannon's, Great pictures of many old instruments of the National Dobro Co.
Radio Hawaii, RealAudio Downloads of New Hawaiian music
Ukulele Boogaloo, Fun stuff, charts, and more.
Ukulele chordfinder, unique and useful site.
UkeDiner, Great Website. Links
Ukulele Guide
The Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum, Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to the Preservation of Ukulele History
Ukulelink, a very large list of Ukulele Links. From Japan -with love!
Ukulele News, Information about the ukulele.
Ukulele Players, site is interesting, but somewhat difficult to use. Wait (at least one minute) for all the tiny dots to appear (even in the middle of the oceans) and then very, very carefully place mouse cursor over a dot and left click. Good luck.
The Ukulele Occasional, a Magazine solely for the Ukulele!
Washboard Bill
DEALERS:
Bushman Music Works, Makers of the popular brand name Bushman. Including the world famous DELTA FROST harmonicas and the SOULS'S VOICE harmonicas. Many other musical instruments and accessories.
Lehua Ukuleles
Flea Market Music
Ukulele World

[ Harp ]

Moira Bonnington's Site, Interesting Family Site on one of England's old Harp Makers
Ardival Harps: Harp holiday in the Highlands of Scotland
The Harp Therapy Journal

[ Banjos ]

Banjo Lounge
Banjo Care
Banjo, Mandolin String Gauge Guide
Banjos and Mandolin Family, a store for traditional music.
Banjo Page: many links.
Bayside Banjo Aggregation , festivals and get togethers
Epiphone Vintage Guitars, Epiphones History.
Don Ferguson's MR BANJO Homesite, Popular songs, with lyrics and chords. Noteworthy site.
Four String Banjo Links
House of Traditional Music , Banjos and Mandolins
Ibanez Banjos, Mandolins and Dulcimers , prices.
David Littlefield's Web Pages, David's fine page with his D-Cup Dixieland Chord Book. (chords and first note of Dixieland tunes).
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Index To Mugwumps Online, Mugwumps magazine
Mandolin Brothers, Tenor and Plectrum
The Mummers Home Page
The Suncoast Mummers String Band, more mummers
Seattle Banjo Club Homepage, has a chords link, too.
(Using) Banjos

[ Guitars ]

Abel Axe guitars
Acoustic Guitarists' Annotated Guide to the Internet, General Guitar information/education with Lessons, Guides, Bios of famous guitarists, Tunings, Technical information etc.
Bruce Arnold - Includes Workshop for Guitarists
Born To Rock Design Incorporated Homepage
The Bottom Line Archive, an electronic magazine for bassists
Broken G-String, The
Carvel's Guitar Page, guitar instructions. Animated chord charts, notation & several styles of playing and Real Audio files.
Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar, History of Celtic fingerstyle, form, tunes, Tunings etc.
Chord Melody Playing, Information is slanted to the Guitar - for chords and melody.
Celtic Music/Finger Style Guitar, Background of Celtic music, Guitar Tunings and Playing techniques.
Classical Guitar, The: A Collective Approach
Classical Guitar and Lute Literature
Classical Guitar Home Page, The
Clasical Guitar Homepage in Japan
Clay Guitars (Vintage guitar information)
Cort Guitars
Crossroads, A new way to learn Guitar with streaming videos, Sound Clips, Tablature, Live Online Lessons and much more.
Spencer Doidge's Guitar Page
Fender Guitars
Flatpicking Guitar Magazine
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/music">Berlin Unviersity, Log on as anonymous, p/w is guest; then change to /pub/music for 28 MB of lyrics, guitar chords and tablatures (use 'binary' for Down Loading.)
Gibson USA
Guitar Chord Analyzer, Spellings, Very nice.
Additional CA Links
Guitar Lessons
Guitar Lessons Online, More Free Online lessons in theory, reading and notation/tablature.
Guitar Links
Guitar Main,Larry Pinkerton's Page - Lessons and much more.
Guitar Resources
Guitar World Online, Online lessons, Audio files, onscreen tablature, product reviews, etc.
Han's DADGAD Guitar Page, Chord Guitar Grids in PDF format. (Adobe Acrobat reader req.), Articles such as: "Chord Scales Accompanying Irish Dance music" and "A few Chord Scales for DADGAD." Graphic score examples provided.
Hutch's Guitar Videos
index of Guitar, An http/FTP site from the OLGA guitar archive. Songs, Tablature, Chords etc. Nice site for guitar educators and Composers. For both Modern and Classical.
iTabs, excellent "Dutch" site with over 33.000+ Guitar & Bass TABs in archive!
Jazz Guitar
Jazz Guitar Resources, Lessons, jpeg's
Johnson, Coale, Jazz guitar player and composer. Audio clips from his CDs, gigs, etc.
Just Jazz Guitar
Milbert Amplifiers, Inc.
Music 101, Site includes Ear Training lessons (javascript Music Quiz); a Javascript Guitar Chord naming page, and a John Tapella blues session. Interview with Christopher Parkening and even some Drumming Tips.
The Official Chord of the Week, Archive of guitar chords with text explanation and photos of hand positions.
Progression - The Future of Music and Guitar
Adam Schneider's Guitar Mini-Archive - Mostly acoustic music
John Sherman's Celtic Guitar Page, With graphic score examples of scales, tunings and some songs.
Shoreline Acoustic Music
Smart Sounds, Bass and Guitar Strings
Tips, Tricks & Licks, Advanced tips & exercises with Real Audio examples and animated graphic charts. Topics include; Turnarounds, Moving Chord Tones, Altered V7 Scale, Altered Dominant Chords and Double-Stops.
Virtuoso Vintage Guitars
Virtuoso Guitars

[ Period Instruments ]

[ Violins, Violas, Cellos, String Basses ]

Amscoms, new site for old "Bottom Line Archive", the electronic magazine for bassists
Bass Frontiers Online
Bowed Stringed Instrument Makers
Dutch Violin Page, The, Information on the history of violin making in Holland.
Essential String Resources
Fabrizio Ferrari's Musicians Page
Fender, bass and guitar manufacturer.
How I Can Make An Electric Fiddle, A well done instructional page that seems to cover the entire process very well.
Internet Cello Society
Jazz Violin
Jazz Strings, Jazz Violin
Kaman Music, US distributors of Trace Elliot, Dean Markley, Hamer, Ovation, Takamine, and others.
La Bella Strings
Luscombe Violins, Makers of violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses.
Maestronet
Modulus Graphite, makers of basses and guitars. pictures and prices (in US$)
PhotoStory: How To Make a Violin, one of the pages on the David Van Zandt site
Play String Instruments.com, Kate Hillard's site devoted to all things strings
Victor Sazer's New Directions in Cello Playing
String Education Resources
Sheila's Corner, all things violin
StringWorks, Instruments, music, community, and a course on building violins, violas, and cellos.
Strad Magazine, The
Strings Magazine, The
Suzuki Method, for the Violin
'Tutti Celli': The Internet Cello Society Newsletter
David Van Zandt, Maker of Violins, violas, cellos.
Viola, An Homage To
Viola, Chicago Society for The
Violin Acoustics, nice U. South Wales (Australis) page.
Violin Land, Cheniston K. Roland's page
VioLink, a large list of links.
Violin Making: by Hans Johannsson , A very attractive site that has everything you'd ever want to know about building your own violin.
ViolinMP3.com, Simon Hewitt Jones' site with a growing selection of several hundred small violin-related articles, and audio and video webcast
Violin Tutor, The, Violin Practice Software for Windows
Viola Website, The
Violin World, Australian Site.
Virtual Fiddle Camp - virtually experience a Fiddle Camp with students handouts, sheet music, MIDI, au files.
Virtual Virtuoso, The

The Cello

American Cello Concertos, from G. Schirmer & Co.

ClassicWeb Cello Page
Internet Resources for the Cello
Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center
Jazz Cello
Portrait of Pablo Casals, photos, essays

Travel Cello
Double Bass

A Basses, Electric Basses and Guitars made by a Bass player -Albey Balgochian

Active Bass.com, definitely "Worth the trip."

Aguilar Amplifiers, makers of Tube-type bass preamps.

Bass Links
Elderly Instruments, both vintage and new.

David Gage String Shop, maker of "The Realist" acoustic bass pickup.

Bob Gullihur's Double Bass Links, links galore!

Home Bass
iTabs, excellent "Dutch" site with over 33.000+ Guitar & Bass TABs in archive!
Kaman Music, US distributors of Trace Elliot, Dean Markley, Hamer, Ovation, Takamine, and others.

Kolstein Music, dealer in Strings, rosin, parts, auction instruments, etc.

La Bella Strings
Modulus Graphite, makers of basses and guitars. pictures and prices (in US$)

Peavey, makers of basses, amps, keyboards etc.

Pirastro Music, supplier of Rosin and Strings

Sadowsky Basses
Smart Sounds, Bass and Guitar Strings

Roger Stowers KAY BASS, also rifle and shotguns (for dealing with re-calcitrant bandleaders???)

Super Sensitive, maker of strings.

Talk Bass
Thomastik-Infeld, Austrian (Vienna) string maker.

Vision Music, guitar and Bass lessons online

Washburn, bass and guitar maker.

Electric Guitar

Guitar Notes , A site completely filed with top quality links to subjects such as guitar care, purchasing and selling, instruction and some great info on famous guitarists.

Gitarre Spielen , Nicely done site with lessons, a place to chat about guitars, software for guitars, contests, jokes and lots more.

iTabs, excellent "Dutch" site with over 33.000+ Guitar & Bass TABs in archive!
Lap Steel Guitar , Describes how the lap steel guitar differs from a normal guitar as well as giving a short history of the instrument and a number of good links.

Power Tuning , This site discusses the many different ways to tune your electric guitar and suggests which one may be right for you.

Scalloped Fretboard Guitar , Contains a description of the instrument, sound files of it in action and some links to bands and musicians that play them.

The Guitar Page , A great site with information on all types of guitaring as well as some excellent playing tips, guitar tabs, online lessons and practice exercises.

Vintage Guitars Info. , As the title suggests, this site is all about vintage or classic guitars. It has a large list of makers to choose from and has great information on the value of these instruments.