- http://www.historicarts.com/
: The Institute of Historic and Educational Arts is a Kansas
based history geek group, we hang out with these guys at the
KC Ren Fest.
- http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/
: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads web site. This site contains
thousands of images of early broadside prints of songs. There are lots
of words here but few of them have music with them. Karin recently
found a “new” verse for
“’Quare Bungle Rye” here.
- http://www.mudcat.org/
: The Mudcat Cafe is the home of the Digital Tradition Database of
folksongs. They also have plans for instruments you can build with kids.
- http://www.rhythmbones.com/
: The Rhythm Bones Society is an IRS 501c(3) non-profit educational
society formed for the purpose of "the continuation, promotion, and
improvement of the rhythm bones (an ancient musical instrument) and
other related musical instruments."
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- http://www.sca.org/
: The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. is one of the coolest
organizations out there for history geeks.
- http://www.chiffandfipple.com/
: Chiff & Fipple: The Tinwhistle Internet Experience. The Chiff
& Fipple considers itself the ultimate Internet guide to the
instrument known as the tinwhistle, pennywhistle, Irish whistle, or
just plain whistle.
- http://www.oldmusicproject.com/
: The Old Music Project sells computerized transcriptions of “O’Niell’s
Music of Ireland”, “Allan’s
Irish Fiddler”, the complete works of Turlough O’Carolan,
and more traditional music.
- http://www.bodojo.com/ : Community and resource for bodhran players.
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