Photographing instruments. This site (courtesy of BunnyBass.com) demonstrates simple and effective techniques for photographing instruments. It's super cheap and low-tech, no lights, no flash, no stands. Advice is excellent.
Axeace a site dedicated to music related classified ads.
Allen Guitars a source for woods as well as instruments.
Rebuilding a Prima Balalaika - a lot of useful information on the balalaika.
Brent Alan a source for Sitka Spruce, all instruments. Check out Brent's page.
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress: Banjo, Cimbalom, Oud, Tar and more. This site has some cool plan drawings made by WPA workers. They are not available as prints, but they are still informative.
Wilson Burnham has recently started to blog his lutherie work.
Clay Guitars A collector, not a dealer, with loads of info on guitar serial numbers.
Chitarrata.com directory of composers, performers and recordings of Western instrumental concert music performed on lutes and guitars available online.
Conservation Online Stanford U's website for curators and conservators.
CSIRO's Tropical Forest Research Center of Australia.
The Early Music Shop. Early musical instruments, kits, etc.
EXOTIC WOODS. Exotic Woods Co. A real resource for builders. Check it out, and tell them GAL sent you!
Blue Ox Hardwoods Nathan H. McElroy,V.P., 1-800-758-0950, Fax 716-871-1735. Hardwood Lumber Specialists.
Fret Not Guitar Repair. It is nicely organized and easy to navigate. Nearly every topic pertaining to guitar repair and maintenance is covered, along with help and how-to's, before and after pictures of repairs, and a host of repair parts and equipment.
"Great Guitar Sites on the Web".
Guitar & Lute.
Harmony Central Lots of music links.
Indiana U's music resources, one of the most comprehensive I know of.
Chris Knutsen, website devoted entirely to this maker. Pictures of instruments, biography and historical photos.
The Kun Shoulder Rest Shoulder rests for violin and viola; these are very popular throughout the world.
Leper's Schematics for electric guitar makers.
Lutherie.gr Greek musical instruments, methode for constructions and a radical view for the guitar.
Luthiers Cruise. This is an Alaska Cruise (from Seattle) for acoustic guitar enthusiasts, including luthiers. Featured artists will be Michael Gurian and two of his former employees, Thomas Humphrey and Michael Millard.
Luthiers International® - This site contains an extensive listing of Luthiers and Instrument Builders. They also offer internet services. They also have NO ADs or Pop-up. The site is sponsored by InlayUSA.com®
Luthiers Mercantile International. The luthier's one stop shop for wood, tools, books, plans, etc.
Musical Math Bob O'Rourke's great site uses flash animation to illustrate mathmatical descriptions of musical string motion.
Musicians & Injuries.
Musicians & Instrument Makers Forum , MIMF ,is a site to be watching closely! Log on and learn (and teach)!
Musikraft A manufacturing co. which makes guitar necks, guitar bodies and violin, cello and contrabass parts.
Oud, a web site about the Middle-Eastern musical instrument Oud, or Ud, Lute, with Nikos Dimitriadis, from Greece, who gives descriptions and plays various improvisations (Taqasims)
Paul Adams has a very informative site dealing with working around the fretboard with a finger amputation or hand injury.
The Rebec Project, everything you ever wanted to know about the rebec.
Sinopia Pigments & Materials, purveyors of traditional materials such as turps, resins, shellac, etc.
Stewart-MacDonald's online catalog.
The Luthier's Library, more than 125 instruments currently in the site with additional instruments being added regularly. The selection runs the gamut from 17th Century Italian makers to 20th Century makers from a number of countries.
Violin Iconography - includes viola da gamba, lute etc. An excellent site.
Violinbridges, an on-line photographic archive of bridges from the violin family.
The W D Music Products website. Guitar kits, etc.
The Woodworkers' Store.
The Woodworking catalog - links to lots of useful things for woodworkers.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Latest poop on what's on the current CITES banned lists.
Absolutely and Totally Unrelated:
The Band.
(Actually, it is sort-of related. . .GAL Board Member Bon [Tim Olsen's sister-in-law] is in the band.
Three of the four band members work in the GAL office.)
"JemWare is the GAL's longtime computer guru firm. They offer IT consulting services in the Puget Sound area."
