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Comprehensive resource of standard and alternate fingerings, including trill, tremolo, and flattement for common woodwind instruments, tin whistle, uillean pipes, shakuhachi, and sarrusophone.
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The Woodwind Fingering Guide Online fingering charts for flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, recorder, tin whistle, fife, charanga flute, shakuhachi flute, uilleann pipes, and sarrusophone  Guide even has oboe fingerings software. If you cannot find what you are seeking, try the site map or links pages. Fingering Charts in this site Basic Fingerings Alternate Fingerings Quarter Tone Fingerings Trill Fingerings Tremolo Fingerings Flattement Fingerings Multiphonic...
http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/

A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
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Contrabass Compendium  The following is a list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present. The links generally point to pages with more information, images, and sometimes sound clips on the particular horns. Some of the instruments below are horns I own,...
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/compendium.html

Classical performer, educator and conductor Henry Doktorski offers hundreds of illustrated pages on the concertina, accordion, harmonica, bandoneon, sheng and harmonium (reed organ) including a directory of performers organized by country and instrument.
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The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. Index Page  Your Browser Does Not Support Frames. Please use the UnFramed version....
http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/

Advice and tips for beginning and intermediate whistle players.
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Brother Steve's Tin-Whistle Pages  Irish traditional music on the tin whistle. My aim is to help learners improve their understanding of Irish music and ways of playing it on this humble but wonderful little instrument. If this is your first visit, make sure to...
http://www.rogermillington.com/siamsa/brosteve/index.html

In-depth harmonica site containing online lessons, songs and downloadable songbooks.
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Jack's Harmonica Page  To receive the harmonica hymn of the day by email please fill out this form: Name: Email Address: since March 8,2002...
http://www.volcano.net/~jackmearl/

Discussion of this traditional wind instrument. Includes photos of horns being crafted and played, downloadable audio, and information on playing technique.
http://www.alphornbau.ch/

Describes how to play the jug, provides downloadable audio examples, and gives information on jug selection.
http://www.schnipp.com/jug.htm

How to build great sounding PVC didgeridoos by focusing on the interior. Also how to modify a bamboo didgeridoo to sound more like a eucalyptus didgeridoo.
http://www.geocities.com/gangwise/didgeridoo