Interesting website on the lute-harpsichord, which is called "one of Bach's favorite keyboard instruments." Provides an in-depth history of this "forgotten instrument" and the ordinary lute.

Help your students identify and classify Western instruments and traditional Chinese instruments.

This resource provides information about the advances in musical instruments, and those who have helped their evolution.

After learning about different stringed instruments, students create their own and then investigate how length and width of the strings affect the pitch. Lesson includes handouts, a rubric, a bibliography, and links.

Access the collection of stringed musical instruments housed at the Library of Congress. Photographs, construction details, recordings, articles, and related resources.

Homepage for a hypertext about the different families of musical instruments. From this page, users can retrieve information on a the acoustics of a variety of specific instruments: stringed instruments, woodwind instruments, brass...

This list of exhibits from the Instrument Museum provides information on 16 instruments that are not widely know. Each instrument is displayed in a 360 degree picture that can be rotated for a complete view.

The emigration of various cultures into the U.S. gives birth to many many instruments such as the piano, guitar and oboe. Discover the history behind these instruments.

There are a number of types of weather instruments located on the grounds of a weather station and used by meteorologists to predict the weather. These include the instruments that have been on the go for over a century with only the...

Understand the science of sound when performing with a brass instrument such as a trumpet or a trombone.

Access the world musical instrument collection of the Music Department of Wesleyan University through this virtual museum interface. Search for and learn about instruments by type, geographic location, instrument material, and genre....

Learn about woodwind instruments in this image gallery with descriptions of each instrument in this page from the musical instruments collection of Yale University.

Learn about traditional instruments from non-western sources in this image gallery with descriptions from the collection of Yale University.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about string instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about woodwind instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Learn about keyboard instruments from the collection of Yale University in this image gallery with descriptions of each piece, including pianos, harpsichords, and organs.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How musical instruments make sounds, music and change pitch.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an Australian instrument called a didgeridoo. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Ruby Jane Smith, a 12-year-old who plays 11 different instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a young lady named Ruby Jane Smith who can play eleven different musical instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Test your knowledge of the distinction between instrumental and intrinsic value.

Besides providing general information on various brass instruments, such as the French Horn and trombone, one can listen to sound clips of these instruments being played.

This interesting site is part of the Virtual Instrument Museum and it lists a variety of materials (clay, stone, wood, gourd, skin, and more) and then it lists a number of instruments created from that particular material. Each...

An A-to-Z directory of all the instruments and tools of the orchestra. Each entry includes a description, a picture, and a sound sample.