Students explore ways to communicate and solve conflict. At the beginning of class, students must communicate emotions without using words. They brainstorm important relationships in their lives. Next, groups of students create a...

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...

A great resource for teachers, students, and performers of string instruments. Very indepth "how-to" descriptions, care information, procedural movies, and more.

This is Fender's official website. They are a guitar, bass and amp manufacturing company.

Have you ever wondered how to make homemade musical instruments? Use this site to find out how to construct sandpaper blocks and mallets.

This site is dedicated to TI:ME, an organization whose mission is to assist music educators in using technology in their classrooms. Features include resources for music education for voice and instrument.

This activity will use tuning forks and the CBR to gather sound wave data for students to use to write Sine (or Cosine) functions. In this activity we study waves of known musical notes before studying waves of unknown musical notes. I...

An image of "Still-life with Musical Instruments", created by Evaristo Baschenis, c. 1650 (Oil on canvas, 115 x 160 cm).

An image of "Still-Life with Musical Instruments and Fruit", created by Cristoforo Munariz (Oil on canvas).

An image of "Still-Life of Musical Instruments", created by Pieter De Ringz (Oil on canvas).

16th Century Regal, a keyboard instrument made in Germany.

Actually this clever site drills pianists on note names and note placement on the keyboard. Kids can access this site at home for practice. Both treble and bass clef are used.

One pair of castanets, or musical instruments, made of ivory and in the shape of human hands, depicts bearded Asiatics.

Provides information about Japan's traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi. Includes a movie of the instrument being played.

Provides information about Japan's traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi. Includes a movie of the instrument being played.

Provides information about Japan's traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi. Includes a movie of the instrument being played.

Video lesson on playing Dorian scales on six-string guitar. [3:26]

Two thousand years before today's "global economy," an exchange network linked the continent of Asia via the Silk Route. Between the first and eighth centuries of the common era, the empires and states of Asia often came into conflict as...

17th Century Claviorganum, made in Germany. It is a combination of a virginal and an organ.

16th Century Violin, made in Italy.

16th Century Double Virginal, made in Flanders.

15th Century Mandora or Chitarino, made in Italy

16th Century Spinetta, made in Italy.

16th Century Cornetto in A, made in Germany.