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| tunings | remarks | top |
| fretted friends music | a long list of tunings for plucked instruments | |
| palmguitars.nl | a whole list of tunings for plucked stringed instruments | |
| pacoweb.net/cuerdas | tuning of every stringed instrument of South America; in Spanish | |
| WA's alternate guitar tunings | extensive list of different guitar tunings | |
| Online encyclopedia of tunings | a kind of Wiki for all kinds of tunings, with further links | |
| collections | top | |
| Asza.com | interesting collection of ethnic instruments from musician Randy Raine-Reusch | |
| Crash course on lutes | some information about Greek and Turkish instruments | |
| Frets.com | lots of information about fretted instruments | |
| Geidai.ac.jp | Japanese site with lots of instruments | |
| Instrumentworld | something similar to my website, but never finished | |
| Jose-Lucio | overview of all different types of Portuguese instruments | |
| KingofKays | website with a large collection of (electric) guitars | |
| Matanya Ophee | website with a nice collection of classical guitars (use your browsers back button) | |
| MatchstickMan | collection of instruments made by Jack Hall out of matchsticks | |
| Minermusic.com | very beautiful site by Greg Miner with many interesting instruments | |
| Musée d'Ethnographie Genève | many pictures of their collection (searched with 'LUTH'); names not very accurate | |
| Museumofworldmusic.com | enthousiastly made site with lots of information, but difficult to wade through (use your browsers back button) | |
| Museum of Leipzig | lot of cittern (zither), dulcimers and guitars (in German) | |
| Musica para Ver | museum-like website with many different instruments | |
| MusicaViva.com | information about lots of different plucked instruments | |
| Musicmall-asia.com | information about instruments of Malaysia | |
| Music of Asia | very nice website about most FarEast and SE.Asia countries, with pictures and links | |
| National Music Museum | page with lots of links to musical instruments | |
| Nay-nava.blogfa | interesting site with all the different Iranian instruments | |
| NYC Met Museum | collection on-line of the New York City Metropolitan Museum | |
| Oddmusic.com | list with unbelievable instruments | |
| Pacoweb.net/Cuerdas | every stringed instrument in South America, incl. tuning; in Spanish | |
| PalmFrondMusic | plucked instruments made from palm fronds (with sound samples) | |
| Pluckedstringedinstruments.com | small collection, but with detailed stories about how he found them | |
| Sagamusic.com | lots of different guitars from the Saga factory | |
| Springersmusic | English site with many different, rare instruments | |
| Stringedinstrumentbase | something like ATLAS, but alphabetical | |
| Toddgreen | a nice collection of all kinds of plucked instruments | |
| Virtualmuseum | website in French with some instruments from all over the world | |
| shops | top | |
| ABCMusical.com.br | shop/musicschool in São Paulo, for all kinds of Brazilian instruments | |
| Albatune.com | internetshop with Albanian instruments | |
| Apollosaxes.com | internetshop with many ethnic instruments | |
| BandaidMusic | music shop in Malta, with custom workshop for Maltese terzin guitar | |
| Bedelau.com | workshop in province Riau Indonesia making gambus melayu | |
| BoliviaMall | internet shop in Bolivia for South American instruments | |
| Bulgariana.com | instruments (and other stuff) from Bulgaria | |
| Early Music Instruments.com | interesting shop with many old and different instruments | |
| Early Music Shop | internet shop in UK for lots of early instruments | |
| Etnian.com | internet shop in Spain with many ethnic instruments, many from Vietnam | |
| EthnicINA | workshop in Yogyakarta, selling a wide variety of instruments from all over Indonesia | |
| Guitarras Chema | a workshop in Mexico for all kinds of guitar-like instruments | |
| Hobgoblin.com | a shop in UK with lots of different Folk and Celtic instruments | |
| Hong Nhung | shop in HoChiMinh that can provide you with all kinds of Vietnamese instruments | |
| HORA | factory in Romania for plucked instruments; ask for their Russian guitar | |
| House of Musical Traditions | shop in USA with a wide range of ethnic instruments | |
| Kusukeni.com | workshop in Bangka Indonesia for making dambus instrument | |
| Larkinthemorning.com | internet shop in Mendocino for lots of ethnic instruments and other stuff | |
| Madeira-in-a-box | internet shop on Madeira selling local plucked instruments | |
| Martin de Witte | maker of lutes and early guitars in Holland | |
| Mid-east.com | shop in USA with a wide range of ethnic instruments | |
| Musicasa | shop in Palma de Mallorca selling Spanish folk instruments | |
| Musikalia.it | factory / internet shop in Sicily, making a wide range of unusual and hard to find stringed instruments from all over the world | |
| Muziek-Ambacht.nl | workshop in Holland for handmade medieval instruments | |
| Oakwoodinstruments | workshop with many stringed instruments | |
| Oudforgitarists.com | website with advice about oud types and where to buy them; also sells oud lessons | |
| Palmguitars.nl | small shop in Amsterdam, overfull with plucked stringed instruments | |
| Pamelasmusic.co.uk | shop in UK with lots of plucked stringed instruments | |
| Pick-et-Boch | shop in France with many different ethnic instruments | |
| Ray Man Eastern Instruments | shop in London with many Chinese and other ethnic instruments | |
| Portman Music | shop in Mexico City for some Mexican instruments | |
| Primetime | Leiloes shop for all kinds of Portuguese instruments | |
| Rhythmfusion | shop with some ethic instruments | |
| Salão musical de Lisboa | factory/shop with many special Portuguese instruments | |
| Sangitamiya.is | shop in Reykjavik selling all kinds of ethnic instruments | |
| Sebastian Nunez | maker of early plucked instruments in Holland | |
| Sound of Nature | internet shop in Hongkong with some rare ethnic traditional Chinese instruments | |
| Spruceguitars.nl | workshop in Holland making modern guitars, but also for restoration of old instruments | |
| Tabubuethnicmusicshop | workshop in Yogyakarta , selling a wide variety of instruments from all over Indonesia | |
| Thebouzoukishop | (internet) shop in Athens for all kinds of Greek instruments | |
| The Camels Back | internet eBay shop in Kashgar (West China) with Uyghur instruments | |
| TiendasLatinas | internet shop in Bolivia for many South American instruments | |
| Timortreasures | internet shop in Australia selling all kinds of stuff from Timor (see Curios) | |
| Tjband | internet eBay shop in Tashkent for instruments from Uzbekistan | |
| Tuvatrader | shop in USA selling instruments (and other stuff) from Tuva | |
| Ukubidon | French website (and shop) about the oilcan ukulele (in French) | |
| interesting sites | top | |
| Yahoo group : Frettedfriends | for fans of all kinds of fretted instruments | |
| Strumschool | a website for everone who would like to start playing the guitar | |