The year 2000 marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the invention of the piano. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History -- in collaboration with other institutions and organizations -- presents a large-scale project called PIA

The Louisiana State Museum Digital Library Jazz collection is composed of photographs, audio recordings and musical instruments from the collections of the Louisiana State Museum.

This site is a freeware website that has images, sound bytes, and information about a variety of instruments.

Net Instruments is a global database of musical instruments for sale. The musical instruments have been posted by our community of 50,000+ registered musicians and are viewed by 250,000 visitors per month.

Welcome to Gina's Flutes. Quality used band instruments of all kinds, not just flutes. We sell used flutes, clarinets, piccolos, trumpets, saxophones, trombones, french horns, oboes, and other used musical instruments. We carry student and professional

The Official Web Site of Buddy Rich has everything you want to know about this famous drummer. Read his biography and learn the story of "Traps the Drum Wonder." Browse the photo gallery for pictures of Buddy Rich on and off the stage!

The Test Collection at ETS is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers.

he SoundJunction website’s all about music. You can take music apart and find out how it works, create music yourself, find out how other people make music and how they perform it, you can find out about musical instruments, and look at the backgrounds to

A web site of the BBC that has many resources for parents, students and others related to music fundamentals, playing instruments, musical careers, and more.

A comprehensive web site dedicated to the history of the wind band.

Game produced by the Kennedy Center's Arts Edge. Perfect Pitch teaches students about the instruments in an orchestra through a baseball game setting. The game introduces students to four eras of orchestral music and the instruments used in each. Students can create their own small orchestras and virtually play each instrument to hear how it sounds. After building an orchestra students then test their knowledge in short quizzes about the instruments and their sounds.