Links
Links
If you enjoy musical instruments you may enjoy surfing through some of our favourite web sites.
Musical instrument collections in Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.html
The Ashmolean Museum http://www.ashmolean.org/
Societies for the study and enjoyment of musical instruments:
The American Musical Instrument Society www.amis.org/
The Galpin Society www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin
CIMCIM The International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections
www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/
The Fellowship of Makers and Restorers of Historical Musical Instruments www.fomrhi.org
Music Museums Worldwide: www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/iwm.html
Some specialist musical instrument societies:
British Clavichord Society: www.bcs.nildram.co.uk/
British Double Reed Society: www.bdrs.org.uk/
British Flute Society: www.bfs.org.uk/
British Harpsichord Society: www.harpsichord.org.uk/
Historic Brass Society: www.historicbrass.org/
The Northumbrian Pipers' Society: www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk/
Recorders:www.recorderhomepage.net/
Further Recorder Resources: http://www.musicproductionschools.net/resources/music-education-learn-to-play-the-recorder/
More information on the theremin here: www.lydiakavina.com
Serpents: http://www.serpentwebsite.com/
Bassoons and Oboes: http://www.idrs.org/
Harpsichord and Fortepiano Magazine: www.hfmagazine.info
Pipe and Tabor Society www.pipeandtabor.com
Musical Instruments to buy:
For all sorts of rare and unusual musical instruments:
Tony Bingham www.oldmusicalinstruments.co.uk
Great pages of Links
Our links to links – you should be able to find almost anything through these:
Two of the largest collections of links can be found through The National Music Museum in South Dakota, USA
www.usd.edu/smm/links.html
Yale University Music Library's website:
www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/webres.htm
If you need a good musical joke now try this:
One of the most complete sites of jokes about musical instruments. Far more viola jokes than you ever wanted to know:
www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/
Do you want to learn about musical instrument making?
Here is a short list of some of the places where this is taught:
www.westdean.org.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/ug-prospectus-2006/courses/musical- instruments.cfm
www.merton.ac.uk/courses.asp
www.newark.ac.uk/
Websites – Kids fun
For the CBBC site, make instruments, and find some real 'moosic'.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/music/
Keep exploring the BBC site, you can even play gamelan there:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/makingtracks/gamelan.shtml
The fun pages from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Good pages for teachers too!
www.dsokids.com/2001/rooms/games.html
The New York Philharmonic Kidzone, visit the instrument lab for lots of fun ideas of instruments to make at home.
www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml
For children learning the cello: www.littlecellist.com
Oxford Tourist links: www.visitoxfordandoxfordshire.com