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BOWED INSTRUMENTS

banjo player

How To Tune A Viola? - Music Basics

Stringed Instrument Repair Topic: Fitting A Fine Bridge To A Professional Quality Instrument - Lars Kirmser

General Essays For String Players - Westbury Park Strings


CELLO

Cello (warm-up, jazz lessons, playing live...) - erikfriedlander.com

Cello School (holding the cello, holding the bow, bowing...) - Westbury Park Strings

Elementary Cello Technique - Manukau Youth Orchestra

In The Express Lane: Learning The Cello As An Adult - Ethan Winer

Tips (equipment, stage fright, octaves...) - Internet Cello Society


VIOLIN

Beginner To Advanced Violin Lessons (tuning, bowing, vibrato, care...) - Folk Of The Wood

Building A Violin: Preliminary Preparations - Lars Kirmser

Elementary Violin Technique - Manukau Youth Orchestra

How To Care For Your Violin - Martin's Violin Shop

How To Determine The Right Size Of Violin To Buy - Music Basics

How To Tune A Violin? - Music Basics

Violin School (easy, intermediate, advanced) - Westbury Park Strings

VMAAI Journal (locating the fixture for fitting the bass bar, bending bass bars, using shims to refit the mortise for the neck...) - Violin Makers Association of Arizona International


PLUCKED / STRUMMED INSTRUMENTS

Acoustic Music Lessons (banjo, mandolin, dobro...) - Folk Of The Wood

Bass - Knowledge Hound

Building A Harp (Celtic folk harp) - Dave's Web

Guitar - Knowledge Hound

How To Build A Bluegrass-Style Five-String Banjo - Popular Mechanics

How To Play the Koto

How To Read Tablature (for mandolin, banjo, guitar & dobro) - 16Tracks.com

How To Use Tablature (for banjo) - banjoTrain

Introduction To Bluegrass Banjo - Richard Hefner

Making The Scheitholt, A Medieval Musical Instrument (traditional German instrument) - Ellen Kuhfeld

The Nicotina (building an experimental instrument) - Ellen Kuhfeld

The Saxon Lyre: History, Construction, and Playing Techniques - Greg Priest-Dorman

Tuning The Sitar - A Beginner's Guide - Strange But Drew


MOUTAIN DULCIMER

Beginner To Advanced Mountain Dulcimer Lessons (tab, picks, fingerboard layout...) - Folk Of The Wood

The Mountain Dulcimer (buying, tuning, playing...) - Sweet Music Index

Mountain Dulcimer Lessons (barre chords, slant chords, improvisation...) - Gila Mountain Dulcimers

Songs Sweet And Simple: Making Music With The Mountain Dulcimer (learning dulcimer as a family) - Mary Amato


STRUCK / HAMMERED INSTRUMENTS

Frequently Asked Questions About Santur (15 tuning variations from 7 Iranian / Persian musical systems)

How To Build A Simple 12-Course Hammered Dulcimer

How-To: Tune A Yangqin - David Sterry's Blog

Instruction (chords, modes, arranging) - Marcy Prochaska: Hammer Dulcimer

Online Musical Instructional Materials (playing the Varzandeh-style santur) - The Official Website Of Legendary Artist Reza Varzandeh

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