These websites are recommended

That doesn't mean we have any control over them! See our external links policy.

We link to many, many websites on the tunings pages. That's not necessarily because they're recommended, it's just that they're in some way useful. Many of them are excellent. But others are the sorry best of a very sorry lot.

The websites on this page aren't like that. They're the ones that make our websurfing fun. The ones that make us think, yeah, that's what the WorldWide Web should be like.

Happy browsing.

Museum (and similar) collections

University of Tokyo

• http://www.geidai.ac.jp/%7Eodaka/gcat/english/chordophones.html Chordophone index

Médiathèque de la Cité de la musique, Paris

• http://mediatheque.cite-musique.fr/masc/?INSTANCE=CITEMUSIQUE&URL=/ClientBookLineCIMU/recherche/NoticeDetailleByID.asp

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/musical_instruments/listview.aspx?page=1&sort=0&sortdir=asc&keyword=&fp=1&dd1=18&dd2=0&vw=1

Atlas of Plucked Instruments

An encyclopedia of all the world's plucked instruments of lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin type. Based on a large private collection of plucked stringed musical instruments (plus additional material from books and websites), this ATLAS will give you information about almost all the different plucked instruments still in use.

• http://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/index.htm

Instrument and string suppliers

• http://mandolinplayer.com/category.asp_Q_c_E_87 Lark in the Morning strings page, strong on ethnic instruments
• http://www.folkofthewood.com/ Folk of the Wood, strong on folk music
• http://www.hobgoblin-usa.com/info/index.html Information on some instruments
• http://www.hobgoblin-usa.com/info/frettune.htm Tuning of some fretted instruments
• http://www.juststrings.com/ String supplier, amazing range, instrument descriptions from Grove
• http://www.stringmail.co.uk/ Another good string site, different strengths and weaknesses to juststrings
• http://www.stringexpress.co.uk/index.htm And yet another

Miscellaneous resources

• http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/string/string.html string gauge calculator - awesome!

English Wikipedia

On-topic articles:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stringed_instrument_tunings
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tuning
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_instrument

Article categories:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:String_instruments
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Guitar_tunings

Personal websites

Performers and the like. But the line between these sites and museum sites is not always easy to draw...

Warren Allen

• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/warrenallen/tunings/tunings.htm WA's Encyclopedia of Alternate Guitar Tunings
• http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/warrenallen/scale_lengths/scale_lengths.htm Scale lengths of many instruments

Graeme Gibson

• http://www.museumofworldmusic.com/index.html

See also

(but sites in these pages are not necessarily recommended)

• the links bucket
• todo