Links Page @ TheCipher.com           General Music Education and Music Theory Tom Pankhurst's TonalityGUIDE Music Theory Online Theory on the Web - Table of Contents (linked pages take a while to load because of many wav sound clip illustrations) teoría - Music Theory Web Mibac Music Theory Reference Music Theory links The Tonal Centre Free online music dictionaries (scroll down the page) rec.music.theory (Usenet newsgroup via news-reader) or Google Groups web interface Early Music Files & Links Classical.net The Gregorian Chant Home Page Harmony in Ancient Music Intuitive Instruments for Improvisors, or ii4i  (is Flash interface) This is the freshest collection of new or alternative musical ideas I’ve ever seen in one place. Innovation is quite at home here. Virtually every page is of interest, containing something cool and unusual, and fun. I’m tempted to link to every separate page of Paul Hirsch's site  ;’) e.g. All-4ths guitar (no 3rd) fretboard pattern generator Jankó piano keyboard Chromatic button accordion   MNMA Music Notation Modernization Association If you think the story of musical systems design and development is over and done, a closed book, have a look at this collection of chromatic staff notation design proposals. Chroma Instutute, Chromatic staff notation. Site dedicatied to disseminating information about one well developed existing chromatic staff notation, A-B Chromatic Notation (Ailler-Brennink Chromatic Notation)   Acoustics, Tuning, and Temperament Graham Breed's microtonal web site General Guitar Instruction (free only) WholeNote — when you get there, click the links to Instruction, Basics, or FretBuzz (their open discussion forums, Q and A). Olav Torvund's Chord progressions for Guitar Olav Torvund's Backing Tracks for Guitar rec.music.makers.guitar (Usenet newsgroup) or via Google Groups web interface Harmony Central User Forums MoneyChords.com — Large collection of FREE guitar lesson links. From the home page: "MoneyChords.com is your one source for the best free guitar lessons available on the Web. Click to the left for a large and growing collection of Guitar and Guitar Chord Lessons, Chord Progression Studies, Tablature, Songwriting Resources, and Jazz/Standard Chord Substitutions."   Songs: Lyrics, Chords, etc. Song Trellis — chord changes to over 1000 jazz standards. Sometimes is slow to load, be patient.   Mandolin Links Lessons with Jethro Burns Get these while you can. Downloadable zipped lesson sessions with an mandolin master made available for free — 100’s of megs of examples of mandolin licks, exercises, and songs (bluegrass, jazz and pop). Rob Coleman’s web site, contributed by Mike Stangeland and Jim Nikora. F-Hole Mandolin Museum Alan Bond's Oval-Hole Mandolin Museum Alan Bond's Providence RI mandolin orchestra mp3 samples Mandolin Cafe Message Board Photo’s of some early mandolin and banjo orchestra’s of Portland Or. Tenor Banjo Links Early 1900’s Banjo Orchestra photos New Criterion Banjo Orchestra's website. Home page is here. Sound clips of various banjo types Note, these vintage instruments all have gut or Nylon strings! This is also at the New Criterion Banjo Orchestra's website. Sound clips of the band’s music. Günter Amendts banjoworld.de tenor banjo horde Tenor banjo FAQ 4 string banjos Banjo Hangout — collection of free banjo  lessons on the web. 5-string Banjo Links Uncle Ben's Banjo Phillip Mann's Banjo Tab and Bluegrass Information Banjo Hangout — collection of free banjo  lessons on the web. Ukulele Links TaroPatch.net: Slack Key Guitar (and ukulele) Forums Ukulele I-IV-V progressions @ ezfolk.com I-IV-V progressions in all keys on Ukulele (scanned book from 1917). Open position chord voicings, drawn out on uke chord/dot grids. ezFolk website Ukulele Chord Library Ukulele Tuning and string gauges Ukulele progressions PDF (free). Howlin Hobbit’s Near the bottom of the page is a bold link "Ukulele exercises". Right-click and "save target as" to download the PDF to disk. There's seven pages of assorted common progressions, and each is then show in 7 different keys, mapped-out on Uke in chord/dot grids -- most are open position chords (first three or four frets). Excellent resource! mele.com Hawaiian music. Largest in-stock inventory of Hawaiian music CDs online!   Tapping Fretboard instruments or Touch-Style (two-handed-tapping string instruments) Stick.com Instrument maker. The official Chapman Stick® site. All mannner of Stick info. Stickist.com Manny Tau’s web site. Check out the FAQ and Bulletin Board. Warr Guitars instrument maker Mobius Megatar instrument maker Easy Touch-Style Bassics - touch-style method book at Megatar site above (100 pages), free. “So that no musician will be denied this information for lack of the purchase price, the core of this book is publicly available for free download on our website.” Now that’s the spirit we like here at TheCipher.com ! Tappistry.org official site for the Tappers Guild, a world-wide non-profit volunteer association of enthusiasts dedicated to the musical technique called “Two-Handed Tapping”. Touch-Style Instruments museum Archives of STICKWIRE web interface to list-serve StickWire list.   Vintage String Instruments Accordion: Concertina, Diationic, Tex-Mex, Cajun, Club Jack Woehr's (aka "Jax") Jax Free-Reed site Great site covering of a variety of accordion types and styles, with tons of FREE lessons (Jack's own), info, and accordion related links. Great free accordion resource. AccordionLinks.com Compiled by Jeroen Nijhof Chromatic Button Accordions I have a whole section devoted to CBA’s here at TheCipher.com For anyone who doesn't know about chromatic button accordions (CBA's)  here's another good quick explanation of the button layout, with graphic. http://www.accordionpage.com/diskant.html Patterns are completely transportable (one "shape" for all materials in all keys/tonics -- analogous to any straight 4ths or 5ths fretboard, sliding a single shape up or down the fretboard to change tonic or key. Keep to any three adjacent horizontal rows (at first) for a full chromatic scale  (tonic in middle row, then one row above and one below for all chromatic  tones): horizontally -- an octave is 5 buttons away (same  row) horizontally -- adjacent buttons (same row) are min-3rds apart -- 4  jumps left or right gets the octave [3° x 4 = 12°] diagonal -- SW+NE -- (low-left  top-right) is chromatic steps diagonal -- SE+NW -- (low-right top-left) is whole-steps Here's an interactive graphic of a CBA button-board -- mouse click the buttons for the tones http://improvise.free.fr/accordeon/accordeon2.html In both of these graphics the white buttons are C Major tones, black buttons are  C tonic flats and sharps -- but imagine one color for all buttons to see the uniformity of patterns, the "neutrality" of the layout and transportability of  all patterns anywhere on the button-board. More CBA’s In Russia, a CDA is called a "Bayan" 5 row Russian CBA, photo of . . . . http://www.accordions.com/tula/ all-white-button CBA photo of http://www.petosa.com/acc/bayan/bayan2c.html another  all-white http://www.borsini-accordions.com/concerto.htm assortment,  featuring the Ergon Concept accordion http://www.donsevers.com/ergon/ another  Russian Bayan http://www.russianfolk.com/html/bayan.html Russian  sailor CBA player w/Macintosh ADB kb attachment ! ;') http://www.litera.ru/golden/gorny.htm 6  row Russian CBA http://yl.fedorov.chez.tiscali.fr/bayan.htm same instrument in context http://yl.fedorov.chez.tiscali.fr/ (wow,  what's that other string instrument in the picture! It's a  Bandoura) 5-row "electric" bayan Russian Topaz-1 1950s (5th photo down)  Has onboard amp and speaker with vibrato/tremolo section -- cool ! http://www.geocities.com/rusynth/misc.htm and  just because they're pretty . . . http://folklora.lv/muzikas/ermonikas/en.shtml   Music Teaching and Education International Society for Music Education Internet Resources for Music Scholars - The Loeb Music Library Harvard MENC — The National Association for Music Education (Music Educators National Conference) Children's Music Workshop Musiceducator.org Software Finale NotePad Other Music from the Hearts of Space Stewart-MacDonald’s Luthier parts, tools, and supplies. Luthier Federico Lowenberger at baroqueviolins.com. Luthier Marco Ternovec at: http://www.liuteria-antica.com/renainstruments.html             Up to Top of page