Useful Links

AMIS accepts no responsibility for any content on any of the following sites. This listing is not an endorsement of the organizations or individuals who created them or any of their activities.

 

• Appraisal Services

• Collections of Musical Instruments

• Educational programs

• Instrument Making

• Instrument Sites

• Musical Instrument Dealers & Makers

• Organizations

• Patent Numbers & Dates

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Appraisal Services

• Albert R. Rice Appraisal Services

• American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers

• American Society of Appraisers

• A&D Music

• Appraisers Association of America

• Kovels' What's it Worth?

• International Society of Appraisers

• Maloney's Antiques & Collectibles Resource Directory

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Collections of Musical Instruments

• Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments

• Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA - Frederick Collection of Historic Pianos

• Antwerp, Belgium - Museum Vleeshuis

• Athens, Greece - Museum of Popular Instruments, Research Centre for Ethnomusicology

• Basel, Switzerland - Musikmuseum, Historisches Museum Basel

• Bloomington, Indiana, USA - Mathers Museum of World Cultures

• Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Museum of Fine Arts

• Brussels, Belgium - Museum of Musical Instruments

• Budapest, Hungary - 

  • Budapest Music History Museum

  • Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum

• Carlsbad, California - Museum of Making Music

• Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA - The Iowa Band Museum

• Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Copenhagen, Denmark - Musikmuseet

• Cremona, Italy - Museo del Violino

• Edinburgh, Scotland - Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh & St. Cecilia's Hall

• Friuli, Italy - Castello di Duino, Vázquez Collection

• Ghent, Belgium - The Logos Foundation

• Greenville, South Carolina - The Carolina Music Museum

• The Hague, The Netherlands - Gemeentemuseum

• Hamamatsu, Japan - Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments

• Kent, England - Finchcocks Museum of Music

• Kremsmuenster, Austria - Streitwieser Brass Instrument Collection, Schloss Kremsegg Castle

• La Couture Boussey, Mairie, France - Musée des Instruments à Vent

• Leipzig, Germany - Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig

• London, England - 

  • The Horniman Museum

  • Royal College of Music

  • Royal Academy of Music

  • Victoria and Albert Museum

• Los Angeles,California, USA - Instrument Collection, the UCLA department of Ethnomusicology

• Manchester, England - Royal Northern College of Music Collection of Historic Musical Instruments

• Markneukirchen, Germany - Museum of Musical Instruments

• Moscow, Russia - Glinka State Museum of Musical Culture

• Munich, Germany - Deutsches Museum

• Nashville, Tennessee - Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

• New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments

• New York, New York, USA - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - The American Banjo Museum

• Owensboro, Kentucky - Bluegrass Hall of Fame & Museum

• Oxford, England - 

  • The Bate Collection, University of Oxford

  • Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

  • Ashmolean Museum

• Paris, France - Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique

• Poughkeepsie, New York, USA - Vassar College Collection

• St. Louis, Missouri – World Music Instrument Collection  http://www.wmic.net

• St. Paul, Minnesota, USA - Museum of Musical Instruments, The Schubert Club

• St. Petersburg, Russia, The St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music

• Seattle, Washington, USA - Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)

• Sherman Oaks, California, USA - Miner Museum of Vintage, Exotic, and Just Plain Unusual Instruments

• Springfield, Massachusetts, USA - Brass Players Museum

• Stockholm, Sweden - 

  • Musikmuseet, Stockholm

  • The Nydahl Collection

• Tainan, Taiwan - Chimei Museum

• Tilburg, The Netherlands - Saxophone Museum Online: The Andreas van Zoelen Collection  

• Tokyo, Japan - Collection for Organology, Kunitachi College of Music

• Trondheim, Norway - Ringve Museum

• Turku, Finland - The Sibelius Museum

• Vermillion, South Dakota, USA - National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota

• Vienna, Austria - Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente, Kunsthistorisches Museum

• Washington, DC, USA - 

  • Library of Congress Collections of Musical Instruments

  • Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection, Library of Congress

  • National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

• Wuhan, China - Hubei Provincial Museum

• Link to the International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections (CIMCIM)

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Educational Programs

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fellowship Programs

• Royal College of Music Research Degrees

• Westminster Choir College, American and Public Musicology

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Instrument Making

• Copies of Historical Musical Instruments. CIMCIM Publications no. 3 (1994)

• Musical Instrument Makers Forum
   

Instrument Sites 

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Brass Instruments

• The Cornet Compendium: History and Development of the Nineteenth-Century Cornet

• The Serpent Website

• "Tempted by a Serpent" by Douglas Yeo

• Vintage Cornet Website

 

Electronic Instruments​

• Peterson Strobe Tuners

• Theremin World

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Experimental Instruments

• Experimental Musical Instruments

• Harry Partch Instrument Gallery

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Free Reed Instruments

• Accordion Links

• Accordions Worldwide

• Bluesharp Page

• Center for Study of Free-Reed Instruments

• Concertina FAQ

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Keyboard Instruments

• Clinkscale Online: A Comprehensive Database of Early Pianos, 1700-1860

• Centre Sébastien Erard

• International Piano Archives at Maryland

• National Pipe Organ Register at Cambridge

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Multiple Instrument Types

• Contrabass Mania

• Oddmusic.com: Unique, Ethnic, Experimental Instruments

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Percussion Instruments

• Not So Modern Drummer

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Stringed Instruments

• American Banjo Makers, Civil War to W.W. II

• Brad's Page of Steel Guitars

• Centre Sébastien Erard (Erard harps)

• Identifying S. S. Stewart Banjos

• Lutes Old and New

• Mandolin Cafe

• The Guitar Junky

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Woodwind Instruments​

• Bagpipe Care and Maintenance

• Ocarina

• International Saxophone Homepage

• Shakuhachi

• World of Flutes

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Musical Instrument Dealers & Makers​

• Allen Organ Company

• Ralph Ashmead, Maker of Historical Bows

• Baldwin

• Tony Bingham (email)

• John Broadwood & Sons

• Carousel Publications (world instruments)

• Ceramic Musical Instruments by Barry Hall

•  Conn-Selmer

• Cooperman Fife and Drum Co.

• Daniel Deitch Woodwind Workshop

• Jim Doble, Elemental Design (unusual mallet percussion)

• Elderly Instruments (vintage instruments, books, recordings, videos)

• Fiddlershop

• Finke Handcrafted Horns

• Gemeinhardt (flutes)

• Gibson Guitars

• Gila Mountain Dulcimers

• Claire Givens Violins, Inc.

• Gruhn Guitars

• The Harpsichord Clearing House

• Hohner USA

• House of Musical Traditions (world instruments)

• Hubbard Harpsichords, Inc.

• Huiras Instruments Internationale (Violins and Guitars)

• Rich Ita's Brass Instrument Workshop

• JustStrings.com

• Kawai

• Lark in the Morning (world instruments, books, recordings, videos)

• Martin Guitar

• Mason & Hamlin

• McNeela Music Instruments (traditional Irish instruments)

• David G. Monette Corp. (trumpets) 

• Robert Morley and Company (Pianoforte and Harpsichord Makers)

• National Association of Music Merchants

• Nora Post, Inc. (Oboes, English Horns)

• Piano Showcase

• Pianodisc

• Rebeats Vintage Drum Products

• Wm Rees, Harpmaker

• Renner, USA

• Schimmel

• Selmer

• Shofars

• Simon Polak, Early Flutes

• George Steck

• Steinway

• George Stevens Early Stringed Instruments

• David T. Van Zandt, Violin Maker

• Vintage Drum Center

• Vintage Drums

• Waterphone Website (Richard Waters, inventor)

• Wichita Band Instrument Company

• Wurlitzer-Bruck

• Yamaha

• Young Chang Pianos

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Organizations 

• American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers

• American Gamelan Institute

• American Guild of Organists

• American Musicological Society

• American Nyckelharpa Association

• Automatic Musical Instruments Collectors' Association

• British Harpsichord Society

• Catgut Acoustical Society

• Center for the Study of Free Reed Instruments

• CIMCIM (International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections)

• Early Music America

• Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments

• The Galpin Society

• GEFAM Zurich: Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente

• Guild of American Luthiers

• Hardanger Fiddle Association of America

• Historic Brass Society

• Historical Harp Society

• Historical Keyboard Society of North America 

• International Council of Museums

• International Double Reed Society

• International Horn Society

• International Society of Bassists

• International Trumpet Guild

• International Tuba-Euphonium Association

• Ivory Education Institute

• Lute Society of America

• Mozart Society of America

• Music Library Association

• Musical Box Society

• Musical Instrument Makers Forum

• Musical Instrument Technicians Association

• National Flute Association

• Organ Historical Society

• Percussive Arts Society

• PianoNet.com (National Piano Foundation)

• The Piano Page (Piano Technicians Guild)

• Reed Organ Society 

• Society for Ethnomusicology

• Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

• Viola da Gamba Society of America

• Violin Society of America

• The Westfield Center (keyboards)

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Patent Numbers & Dates 

• Dating Instruments Using Patent Numbers

• U.S. Patent Dates and Numbers: 1836-1990