You'll also find tutorials and advice on every aspect of music making, from stringing a guitar to setting up a DJ turntable. Plus star interviews, free music downloads, daily news and comment, webcasts, competitions and much, much more. Other features include samples available for downloading and a music shareware site. Searchable by name, geographic region, building materials used and the Sachs Hobostel classification scheme, the database provides users with instrument images, textual descriptions and an occasional sound file. An archive of guitar music in tablature format, with indexes.
Files are in text format.
This main site will direct you to a variety of Web sites, FTP sites, and search engines for the archives. This site makes the wonderful collection accessible to everybody, including pictures, data banks, the collection's catalogue, as well as guided tours and news items. The main principle behind the development of the site was to provide tools for those that are knowledgeable to create on-line lessons from which other visitors can learn, thereby creating a collective knowledge that all can use to further their own playing, and to allow visitors to access this knowledge in a fast and intuitive manner.