MUS 246: Music in Global Perspective

The world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections. The database now contains the records of 64259 instruments.

The eMuseum has thousands of objects from the permanent collection of the museum, from accordions to zithers and everything in between.

Audioclips and images of instruments from around the world.

A system used to classify all musical instruments based on how an instrument vibrates to produce sound. Even though the system has been criticized and revised over the years, it is the most widely accepted system of musical instrument classification used by organologists and ethnomusicologists.