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- 05/11/08
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I have tried very hard to post here only the best links I could find related to folk music, and have tried to jump into sites on the other side of splash pages and such. If you find that is not the case, please let me know, and I will see if I can find a way to vector around them.
- Banjo Corner has a variety of banjos for sale with distinguished styles and discount prices. Only brand names with quality you can trust like Oscar Schmidt and Washburn are sold. Banjos can be found for beginners and professional musicians. All banjos for sale are brand new, and satisfaction is guaranteed.
- Test your banjo for Y2K readiness
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Banjo Glossary
- 5-String Banjo Tunings - a large listing of tunings for 5 string banjo and songs/artists that use them.
- BANJO-L Website Table of Contents. Listserver site for BANJO-L
- Paul Hawthorne's Website is another fine web site, aimed at banjo players (no pun intended!), and is where Scott Zimmerman's Answers to Banjo FAQ's (below) came from.
- Scott Zimmerman's Answers to Banjo FAQ's, a very good page, discussing how to care for wood instruments, how to adjust the head of your banjo, what to look for in a banjo, etc.
- BluegrassBanjo website - nice links. Online lessons
- Banjo Information and Trivia from BluegrassBanjo.org
- Private banjo lessons, Video Banjo Lessons By Mail, Lessons By Mail with AcuTab proprietor John Lawless - for a fee.
- Bopjo Central - "devoted to furthering an awareness and appreciation of Jazz and progressive music played on the 5-String Banjo"
- The Banjo Revolution Web Circle - Links to more banjo information
- Banjo Hangout - "your helpful resource for everything related the banjo" - lessons, tabs, links. Beginner, Intermediate, Expert topics. Very nice site.
- 5 string banjo anatomy - Pictures and discussion of banjo mechanical construction.
- Online 5 string Banjo Owners Manual (in progress), and A Look at Banjo Pegs, and Installing a Geared 5th Peg - cool - actually giving instructions and showing pictures of how to do it! - from frets.com - excellent. Their Table of Contents and Index
- Why Our Stringed Instruments Sound Out of Tune and A Way to Help Correct the Problem by Bill Palmer - discusses tuning theory (briefly) and how to tune guitars and banjos to sound best.
- An Uneventempered Tuning Strategy and How to Use Electronic Tuners With It by Paul Hawthorne - a slightly different way to tune a banjo to sound good. No! this is not a joke.
- Here is a nice link to more banjo links from the Bluegrass Banjo website.
- Not exactly a fiddler site - more of a violin accessory site - They sell fiddle parts and accessories worldwide, http://www.muchofinoviolins.org
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Fiddlers Attic - Nice links related to fiddling, and old time music, Plus classified ads for violins, banjos, mandolins
- Fiddler Magazine - "to provide an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners"
- Irish Music Magazine
- Fiddle-L To subscribe to this list send the text: subscribe fiddle in the body of the message to: majordomo@fsc.fujitsu.com
- The Virtual Fiddle Camp's - Student Package - sponsored by: The Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society
- Definitions of Types of Old Time Fiddle Tunes - Very nice!
- The Fiddler's Companion created by Andrew Kuntz is a huge (>50,000) encyclopedia of fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions. Some the tunes (several hundred) are in ABC format. See the ABC section below on this page.
- Fiddler's Sites of Interest links to sites that would be of interest to fiddlers (and possibly other folk musicians). Quite a lot of ABC format music links, but midi and gif too.
- The North American Fiddlers Association
Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Here is a short History of the Dobro - if the word 'dobro' sounds a little eastern European (or even Slovakian) to you - there might be a reason why.
- More Than You Really Wanted To Know About the Dobro. Part 1 of 2. By Ken Brown.
- More Than You Really Wanted To Know About the Dobro. Part 2 of 2. By Ken Brown
Mandolin Mart is the one stop shop for all of your Mandolin needs. They are an authorized Washburn and Oscar Schmidt dealer.
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Here is a medium History of the Mandolin, and an even more in-depth History of the Mandolin
- For you philosophical Mandolin players and listeners - The Tao of the Mandolin
- Roland White's Bluegrass- and Mandolin-Related Links
- Radim Zenkl's Home Page - Mandolin Music
- Steve's Mandolin Links
- COMANDO - "A group dedicated to the furtherance of the mandolin. It is intended for present players, those interested in learning how to play and those who simply enjoy mandolin music." To subscribe, send email to - LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU and in the body of the message, put - subscribe comando
- Nashville Mandolin Network and its Bluegrass Mandolin Workshop.
- Online Mandolin Owners Manual (in progress) from frets.com - good. Their Table of Contents and Index
- Why Our Stringed Instruments Sound Out of Tune and A Way to Help Correct the Problem by Bill Palmer - discusses tuning theory (briefly) and how to tune guitars and banjos to sound best.
- An Uneventempered Tuning Strategy and How to Use Electronic Tuners With It by Paul Hawthorne - a slightly different way to tune a banjo to sound good. No! this is not a joke.
Guitar Lessons - Guitar Scale. You can move forward from boring bedroom practice and progress quickly and easily with simple to follow first guitar education tutor training lessons, for the guitarist who wants to begin to play and learn.
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Acoustic_guitar - Listserver contact - acoustic_guitar-owner@onelist.com. An open, unmoderated discussion list about playing the acoustc guitar. Discussions about every genre are welcome, finger-style, flatpick, flamenco. The list will focus on learning to play in various styles and on sharing TAB and other educational learning material. List owner: nature@wxs.nl (Gert Braakman)
- FLATPICK-L - Listserver for the discussion of the style of acoustic guitar playing known as "flatpicking." This includes bluegrass, old-time, fiddle tunes, swing, "new acoustic music," newgrass, and flatpicked Celtic styles. To subscribe, send email to listserv@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU and in the body of the message, put subscribe FLATPICK-L
- Flatpick-L Website
- GUITARIST-L A listserver for guitarists, both amateur and professional. Topics can include instruments, amps, mixing, effects, or anything else related to the art of playing the guitar. To subscribe, send email to - listserv@MANA.LANDOFHAZE.COM and in the body of the message, put SUBSCRIBE GUITARIST-L Firstname Lastname
- GuitarSite - a very nice guitar oriented site
- GuitarNotes - another nice guitar oriented site.
- Here are more Guitar links
- Flatpicking Irish and Scottish Music on Guitar
- OLGA, the On-Line Guitar Archive. OLGA is a library of files that show you how to play songs on guitar.
- Online Steel String Guitar Owners Manual from frets.com - excellent. Their Table of Contents and Index
- Online Classical Guitar Owners Manual (in progress) from frets.com - good. Their Table of Contents and Index
- Jazz (archtop) Guitar Owners Manual (in progress) from frets.com - good. Their Table of Contents and Index
- Why Our Stringed Instruments Sound Out of Tune and A Way to Help Correct the Problem by Bill Palmer - discusses tuning theory (briefly) and how to tune guitars and banjos to sound best.
- An Uneventempered Tuning Strategy and How to Use Electronic Tuners With It by Paul Hawthorne - a slightly different way to tune a banjo to sound good. No! this is not a joke.
Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Bass Archive listserver - The Bass Archive is a gathering of Bassists who want to discuss what's on their minds. Feel free to post whatever you want, as long as its content is appropriate to the list. Hopefully this list will be more of a learning tool, than a place to talk with your friends. The Bass Archive will come to you every business day, Monday through Friday in an environment friendly digest version. So enjoy, and tell others!! To subscribe, send email to majordomo@valinor.eldar.org and in the body of the message, put subscribe bass_archive
Hammered
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- A Dulcimer Builder's Do-It-Yourself Guidebook by Randy "Ardie" Davis
1504 Frontier Drive
Arlington, Texas 76012
email: ardie@hamiltonardie.com
Web: www.hamiltonardie.com/DIYBookPage.htm
- 188 pages. Over 100 photographs and illustrations. Pre-printed plans and templates. 15/14 Floating Soundboard.
- 50+ on-line Dulcimer Resources and Suppliers
- Special Builder's Resource Center Web site.
- Available in print, CD-ROM, and .PDF Downloadable eBook
- $24.95 for CD-ROM and .PDF
- $28.95 for Perfect-bound Book
- $2.50 shipping and handling for Book and CD-ROMThis book provides easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to build a high-quality 15/14 floating soundboard hammered dulcimer with 3-strings per course. It is completely up to date, and provides information and links to over 50 dulcimer suppliers and resources, either via a special Builder's Resource Center Web page, or via hyperlinks in the CD-ROM and .PDF versions of the book.
- The Official World Wide Web Hammered Dulcimer Page
- The Kitchen Musician Website - many links to hammered dulcimer and folk music
- Griffin Music's - FAQ about The Hammered Dulcimer
- How to build a hammered dulcimer - "HAMMER DULCIMERS - How I Build The Things" by Charlie Alm
- Dulcimer Web Ring - both Hammered and Mountain types
- Pete B's Hammered Dulcimer & Music Links
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
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- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Dulcimer Players News (DPN) has guided players, builders, and dulcimer enthusiasts on their musical journey. Devoted to both hammered and fretted dulcimer with tunes, tips for beginners, reviews, instrument care and repair, interviews, festival information, dulcimer history, and more. Quarterly, 52-page issues are mailed to subscribers in January, April, July, and October.
Mountain (Lap)
- The Southern Wisconsin Dulcimer Club holds regular informal monthly meetings. For more information please contact - Judy Estervig (608)845-7383. Email - mae.jfe@juno.com
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- Katie LaRaye Waldren - is an area musician that has written a number of books on the mountain (lap) dulcimer. This is a frames based site so you may have to manually select her Products page. She also gives workshops - check on her For Your Information page.
- Appalachian (Mountain) Dulcimers - a brief history and information on Appalachian dulcimers.
- SONG OF THE WOOD Website This is the home of the Handcrafted Instruments and Music of Jerry Read Smith. Jerry has been designing and building Hammer Dulcimers for over a quarter century. He also designs and builds Bowed Psalterys
- Joe Zsigray's Mountain Dulcimer Page - Dulcimer Instruction books, tapes, etc.
- Joe Zsigray's Harmonica Resource Page - Harmonica's and Instruction books, tapes, etc.
- Here is a list of links to information on various stringed musical instruments - all kinds of instruments.
- The bodhrán is the heartbeat of Irish music. This ancient framedrum is traditionally made with a wooden body and a goat-skin head, and is played with a double-headed stick called a cipín, tipper, or beater.
- The Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
- Ceolas Celtic music instruments
- The Button Box - specialize in accordion and concertina sales and repairs and have a great selection of books, recordings and accessories in stock. "The web site is great for anyone interested in traditional music - it has that rare combination: pretty, fast-loading, and lots of useful links and information about hard-to-find recordings, etc."
- Musical Instrument Makers Forum - an online forum for the discussion of making musical instruments, for those from novice to expert/professional. They have a nice links page. They also have a book store, tools store, and FAQ.
- The Autoharp Page.
- Wither Zither - Zither - the world famous Peter Berryman's look at the zither - with links.
- Not exactly a luthier site - more of a violin accessory site - They sell fiddle parts and accessories worldwide, http://www.muchofinoviolins.org
- From the great land 'downunder' Ellis Guitars in Willetton, WA (near Perth, Western Australia). Here is an interview with Andrew Ellis in Tradmusic magazine - "... I realised after some time that with my woodworking skills I could build myself a guitar. My goal was to build something I would be proud of and want to play myself. It took me five guitars and every spare minute of time researching to come up with a guitar which I was proud to play. Today I have the same goal - making the best possible guitars for my customers." Services, Guitars, Contact, Email - info (at) ellisguitars (dot) com.
- Frets.com - an excellent site - "An Acoustic Instrument Textbook for Musicians and Luthiers." - Information on fretted instruments, care, repair, upgrading, accessories, Luthier Technical Q & A, "The Owner's Manual You Didn't Get", Items for Luthiers, Vintage Online Instrument Museum - guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukes, more!, What's New Page.
- Hoffman Guitars - has an excellent restoration project - a 1908 C.F.Martin 0-17 - documented online, they also have guitar making documented online. This is a frames based site - I can't jump into pages directly. This site is worth it!
- The Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) is a Bi-Monthly Music Magazine that publishes a range of articles and reviews on traditional, classical and contemporary music in Ireland. Issued every two months, JMI is available by mail subscription and in selected shops around Ireland.
JMI’s multi-genre approach makes it unique, bringing you debates on all issues relating to music in Ireland, from Irish traditional music to contemporary composition, sean-nós singing to music education, and music history to music criticism.
From September 2004, JMI, in co-operation with the Irish Traditional Music Archive, will also bring you listings of new traditional music CDs and books, vital for all those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest releases.- musiclessonsource.com offers live private music instruction via internet videoconferencing. It is a new concept in musical instruction and is perfect for those that can't find or can't get to a qualified instructor, or those that just freeze up in a normal learning situation. Randy is teaching Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, and Dobro and concentrating on Bluegrass, Folk, Blues, Jug Band, and Celtic. Have a look www.musiclessonsource.com
- North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance - "...exists to foster and promote traditional, contemporary, and multicultural folk music and dance, and related performing arts in North America. The Folk Alliance seeks to strengthen and advance organizational and individual initiatives in folk music and dance through education, networking, advocacy, and professional and field development."
- Old Time Music Home Page - "is a web site devoted to the preservation of American traditional music, especially the music of the Appalachian Mountain region"
- Old Time Music Sites - more links to old time music - from the Fiddlers Attic.
- Old Time Music
- rec.music.country.old-time - Frequently Asked Questions
- Definitions of Types of Old Time Fiddle Tunes
- A Folkie's Dictionary, a comprehensive glossary of musical terms related to folk and roots music.
- Here is a short History of Bluegrass Music
- BlueGrassRoots - don't let its location (Estonia) fool ya, this is one amazing web site.
- The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) is a professional trade association dedicated to promoting and expanding the success of bluegrass
music.- If you have a band and no name - The Random Bad Bluegrass Band Name Generator
- Ceolas.org - Celtic Music
- Tunes at Ceolas - their tunes (in Acrobat format, graphics (gif), ABC (& postscript), MIDI, Bagpipe TeX), software links page, and songs and lyrics
- Celtic/ British Isles Music For Finger Style Guitar
- FolkLib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links
- Songs.com - folk artist list
- Musi-Caltm - Search for concert schedules for your favorite musicians, check out festival links or browse club listings!
- Homespun Tapes - Music Instruction on cassette, CD, and video tape
- Dirty Linen Magazine - an e-zine out on the east coast of the US
- Dirty Linen listing of concerts in Wisconsin. - GOOD
- Southern Wisconsin Bluegrass Music Association, Inc. - a great organization, and a wonderful site.
- folkmusic.org, the comprehensive source for folk and acoustic music resources on the World Wide Web.
- The Folk File - A Folkie's Dictionary - nice link.
- Barb Diederich's Handy Bluegrass Links - Excellent Link - over 2000 links to bluegrass stuff on the web.
- A Link to more Links on acoustic, folk, and bluegrass music.
- Northern Lights Link to more acoustic, folk and bluegrass music links.
- Cybergrass - "The Internet's Best Bluegrass Music Source".
Lyrics, Recordings, Labels, and Other Resource Links
- Mudcat Café - an e-zine - has folk/blues online forum and DigiTrad Lyrics Search
- Bluegrass Lyrics - from Japan! Very thorough
- Folk Music - An Index to Recorded Resources - from The Johns Hopkins University and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. This is a excellent resource for American folk music recordings.
- Dirty Linen's - Folk Record Company (Label) Addresses - huge!
- The Witz End - list of Wisconsin music venues, record companies, recording studios, music stores and agencies with websites.
- Folk Era Records, based in Naperville, Illinois, has 70 albums currently in print on the label, though that number is ever growing. They feature a selection of both reissues and new releases.
- Mugwumps Online Classified Ads - Banjos, Concertinas, Dulcimers, Fiddles, Guitars, Mandolins, Ukuleles, and more
- Net Instruments - Online musical instrument classified ads
- efolkmusic - MP3's, CD's of Folk, Bluegrass, Celtic, etc. music.
- The Fiddler's Companion created by Andrew Kuntz is a huge (>50,000) encyclopedia of fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions. Some the tunes (several hundred) are in ABC format. See below.
- Guitar Gallery Sheet Music - Has a great selection of folk/bluegrass sheet music for Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Dobro and Fiddle.
- Free Sheet Music - links to free sheet music from freesheetmusic.net, much of it is in ABC format
- Not exactly an instrument supplier - more of a violin accessory site - They sell fiddle parts and accessories worldwide, http://www.muchofinoviolins.org
- Deal Turtle -- Ethnic and Mid-East instruments dealer. Their central focus is any type of ethnic, world, or middle-eastern music or musical instrument, but They go far beyond that. They are a global dealer of unique and hard to find products and merchandise.
- Selling Music Instruments. They are a simple to use UK online trading advert site for musicians, instrument manufacturers and traders, where items can be displayed for buyers and sellers to purchase or exchange. Our buy or sell categories cover all musical instruments and accessories.
- Carousel Publications, Ltd. specializes in making music fun. Here you'll find djembes and talking drums from Africa, doumbeks and tablas from India and Pakistan, gongs and cymbals from China and Indonesia, tambourines and drums from Egypt and Morocco, flutes and ocarinas from South America and China and many more percussion and musical instruments from around the world.
- Mid-East Mfg., Inc. "Ethnic musical instruments from around the world"
- The ABC musical notation language is described in detail. "It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin (such as English, Irish and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard classical notation. However, it is extendible to many other types of music and recently Steve Allen has coded Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Movement 2 in abc!". Although it may not be very easy.
- The Fiddler's Companion created by Andrew Kuntz is a huge (>50,000) encyclopedia of fiddle tunes from the Celtic, British and American traditions. Some the tunes (several hundred) are in ABC format.
- John Chambers' ABC music collection - If that name rings a bell - you have been in Madison a long time! He has a huge collection of folk music (in File, ABC, PS, EPS, GIF, and MIDI formats) from all over the world, a large amount from the Balkans, also a lot of contradance, Irish, Scottish, and other that you might find useful. If you haven't heard about ABC music yet (it is fairly new!) read John's FAQ about ABC Music Notation. It is a simple, transportable music notation system that was developed on the net. It is probably not sophisticated enough to do classical music scores easily, but it seems to work well for folk music. There are Windoze viewers, players, and printers available at his site. His 'Tune Finder' will locate tunes for you so you can retrieve them in - File, ABC, PS, EPS, GIF, or MIDI format. Excellent job John!
- The ABC2Win program provides a means of translating standard ABC notation into standard musical notation which may be viewed on screen in Microsoft Windows®, and/or printed out. It comes with a player program so you can hear tunes you collect or write yourself. It is shareware - $20. It is an OK program, sample musical staff print out is excellent quality, playing music through the PC speaker is functional, but a little hokey.
- Another decent ABC program is - AbcMus. It is shareware - current price of version 1.1 - $10.00 (US dollars). It runs under Windoze and will play the music to a midi device with some style, it can automatically add chords, and has other useful features.
- ABCTools, is a 16-bit Windows program that lets you transpose ABC tunes, make cheat sheets, check the syntax of your tune files, and more. By Elizabeth Scarlett. Freeware?
- ABCFind a 16-bit Windows program that lets you search ABC tune files for text or tune fragments. You can look for tune titles (or any text string) in your ABC files, search for tunes if you know the first (or any) bar of the music but not the title, compare tunes, and more. By Elizabeth Scarlett. Freeware?
- abc2ps - A program from Michael Methfessel, which converts from ABC to postscript directly, for various platforms - Unix, Mac, DOS, Windows 95, NT. For Widows you will need to get Ghostscript and GhostView to be able to view/print postscript.
- Links to ABC music, and fiddle music
- A large list of Links to ABC music.
- Free Sheet Music - links to free sheet music from freesheetmusic.net, much of it is in ABC format
Other Useful Music and Audio Tools (Software)
- Musician's CD-Player for Windows from Roni Music in Sweden - speed up or slow down wave files, and CD music without changing pitch. Excellent for practicing along, or for learning or teaching dances. They also have other nice shareware audio and midi software for Windoze and Atari
- Syntrillum Software - the makers of CoolEdit - a Windoze software package for editing all types of wave files, signal processing abilities include noise removal, speed up/slowdown waveforms with or without changing pitch, FFT filtering, cue lists, play lists, crossfade splicing, plus more. Shareware. Ver 2000 is $69, upgrade from Ver 96 is $29
- Metronome by Nick Baciu is shareware $9, it will do irregular rhythms (9/16, 11/16, etc)
- CDex is a is utility which can record Digital Audio (DA) tracks from CD into files. The recorded audio tracks can be stored as WAV or MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) files. Freeware
- Go!Zilla - Adverware(no charge)/Shareware($30) Automate your downloads - nice, powerful - especially nice for downloading lots of ABC files at one time. You can "leech" an entire FTP directory.
- Spectrogram by R.S. Horne - Freeware - display spectrogram of sound coming into your PC's microphone.
- Frequency Analyzer A Windoze sound frequency (spectrum) analyzer, Freeware. Needs a sound card, and a microphone.
- Tuner - A Windoze "guitar" tuner, Freeware. Needs a sound card, and a microphone.
- NoteCard is a Freeware music-reading drill utility for Windows. Comes in 16 and 32 bit versions. It's an ideal tool for anyone in the first stages of learning to read music. It can significantly shorten the time it takes to learn to recognize the notes instantly, an absolutely necessary ability for fluent reading. Practice the bass staff, the treble staff, or both at once, Three input modes, including piano keyboard style, Detailed on-line help. If you are new to downloading they have a short tutorial to help you.
- WinAmp - I got it from TUCOWS - "An outstanding MP3 (Mpeg Layer-3) audio player. Includes spectrum analyzer, graphic equalizer, playlists, and more! You can rewind and fast-forward the files by its handy bar at the bottom. Great user-interface!" Freeware.
- Shareware Music Machine - "The World's Biggest Music Software Site" - Definitely check this out if you are into music or audio. Plenty of tools here.
- Transkriber SLOW DOWN the music without changing the pitch using your computer!
- Windows Annoyances a site devoted to coping with Windows annoying "features".
- Some Hog Wild people - KPIG's Webcast - Listen to folk/bluegrass while you work.
- The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet, and on the Air.
- The Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) publishes a range of articles and reviews on traditional, classical and contemporary music in Ireland.
- Folk Roots Magazine - an e-zine hosted in the UK
- For all you Slovaks out there (you know who you are) - The Official Slovak Bluegrass Home Page.
- The British Bluegrass Music Association
- BlueGrassRoots - don't let its location (Estonia) fool ya, this is one amazing web site.
- Bluegrass Lyrics - from Japan! Very thorough
- Lyrics to Traditional & Bluegrass & Country Songs - from the Czech Republic
- Five Strings Inside - 5 string Celtic and Old Time music site from France
- Roni Music - from Sweden nice, compact software for music enthusiasts
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