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For companies and individual craft workers making musical instruments, both professional and amateur. This top-level category is for sites covering instruments in more than one musical family. Also see subcategories for specific families and instruments. Sites may promote or illustrate products, demonstrate techniques, or give biographical, historic or other information. Also for forums, newgroups and mailing lists on the subject, as well as for sites of interest to instrument makers including, kits, plans, instructions, parts or specialized tools. Also see the Manufacturers sub-category for companies making relatively large numbers of instruments.

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Resources in This Category

• Invented Musical Instruments From Discarded Materials

  http://www.angelfire.com/folk/inventedinstruments/
  Making a lutejo, mbira, criblute, sextar, kemancheh, banjo and 16th century Italian pentagonal virginal from dumpster dived materials.

• Jubilee Instruments & Crafts

  http://www.tinwhistles.us/jubilee/index.php
  Maker of folk music instruments, tin whistles, flutes and chromatic whistles. Located in Kings Mills, Ohio, United States.

• Music Magic

  http://www.timmanning.net/
  Handmade by Tim Manning, hammered and Appalachian dulcimers, psalterys, lyres, tongue drums and others. Based in Somerset, United Kingdom.

• Musicmaker's Kits, Inc.

  http://www.musikit.com/
  Kits with precut parts, including a variety of harp, flute, dulcimer, psaltery and Appalachian style instruments. Stillwater, Minnesota, United States.

• Noteworthy Instruments

  http://www.noteworthyjohn.com/
  John Huron, maker of oldtime and Appalachian music instruments. Dulcimer, mountain banjo, mountain lark, mouthbow, gourd bankar, mouthbow, kazoo. Bristol, Tennessee, United States.

• Production and Sale of Jew's Harp

  http://www.drumble.sk/
  Peter Sobota, producer and vendor. Price list, images and samples of music. [English/Slovenky]

• Renaissance Workshop Company Ltd.

  http://www.renwks.com/
  Spain. Manufacturer of early musical instruments (medieval, Renaissance and Baroque) and instrument kits for historical performance.

• Schmelzer Musical Instruments

  http://www.schmelzertrombone.de/
  Handmade brass instruments and banjos.

• Strum Hollow Acoustic Music

  http://strumhollow.com/
  Custom makers of lap dulcimers and banjos. Also manufactures musical spoons, washboards, and sell a variety of other instruments.

• Sunreed Instruments

  http://www.sunreed.com/
  Bamboo flutes, bamboo saxophones, didgeridoos, crystal bowls, shakuhachi, bamboo clarinets, Native American flutes, drums, and world instruments. A small workshop in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont.

• Tibor Koblicek

  http://www.slovakheritage.org/Folkartists/koblicek.htm
  Maker of folk instruments, including the ninera, a violin style instrument. Based in Slovakia.

• Tribal Thunder

  http://www.tribalthunder.com/
  Designs, handcrafts, and plays percussion and wind instruments. Offers presentations, events, and teaching sessions in the Delhi, Ontario area.

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