A fine collection of Braguinha's and other Maderan instruments |
A great archive of early 20th century Trade catalogues |
Andy Banjo - Very good site for information on Banjos and banjoleles |
Antebellum Instruments - Does up old instruments,photographs them, writes about them and sells them. |
Atlas of Plucked Instruments - describes pretty much every plucked instrument type. |
Banjoukes.com - A site listing makers of US Banjoleles with a bit of history |
Blue Book of Guitar valuations - valuation is not free but they have a nice encyclopaedia of makers and distributors |
Chordie - my favorite Song tabs and chords site- they do a special for C and D tuned ukuleles on a lot of the songs |
Chordmaster -a good site for info on Plastic Ukes and Chordmasters |
Dream Ukes - a top Ukulele shop with branches is Hawaii and Singapore that stocks work for many luthiers and ships around the world |
Elderly Instruments - Big US music shop that includes a good selection of pre loved instruments and a great photo gallery of instruments that have passed through the shop |
Everything you need to know about British Banjos and Banjoleles of the early 1900's |
Fairly full history of the Ukulele |
Feltrums (Felt Picks) and other Ukulele paraphernalia for sale - they do a good sample set of feltrums so you can find the one you like - Its where I get mine |
Flea Markets site for buying and selling Ukuleles (the best place to sell good ones) |
Fox Guitars - a very good site on the history of Gibson and Epiphone including the other brands Gibson made instruments for |
French site about guitars with a very lage database of European and North American Luthiers |
Frets.com Museum some nice photos here |
Gear Track A site for Registering Musical instrument and alerting others should your Instruments get stolen |
German Guitar Makers of the 20th Century |
Google Sites The Host for this Website |
Great collection of German made Ukuleles |
Greg Milners bizzare collection of stringed instruments |
Griphon this shop sell nice ukes and has great pictures of them |
Guitar Planet Japan - a shop that has the cream of Ukuleles on sale have a look and see what the currently have |
Instruments Past - Antique, vintage and collectors' musical instruments for sale in the UK |
Jedistar a large database of guitar and other Chordophone makers |
John Croft (www.theukuleleman.com) - A great site for information and photographs of Older Ukuleles and Banjoleles, (UK Based) including some quality Instruments for sale |
Just Ukulele a site that is just Ukulele playing lessons - and some songs to practice too |
Kiwaya's Ukulele Museum in Japan |
Mugwumps has lots of information on Folk instruments including a banjo Tailpiece database |
Museum of Making Music - Nice site with some info and nice pictures of Old Ukuleles |
Museum of Soviet Guitars (some great looking models and lots of information on them if you translate |
Museum of the Cavaquinho in Portugal - A good site for allthings Cavaquinho and barguinha |
Notecannons - Website about Resonator Instruments |
Omega Music - A Good UK shop for Ukuleles, Ukulele Accessories and other musical equipment, It's also where I get my strings from |
Piccolo Place a site about Banjoleles and small Banjos |
Puerto Rican Cuatro Project - Everything you need to know about Puerto Rican folk instruments |
RetroFret - A good plase for quality pre-loved instruments and a great gallery of Instruments that have passed through their hands. |
the Artur Pestana Andrade (APA ) Museum, contributing to the study and preservation of the cultural musical heritage of Madeira |
The Guitar Museum - a user wiki of Guitars with lots of nice pictures (but as with all wikis the information in not verified and can be suspect) |
The Puerto Rican Cuatro Project - a very interesting site about the Puerto Rican folk instruments including an explanation of why ithe cuatro has 10 strings |
The Stringed Instrument Database - A good reference for obscure stringed instruments from around the world with pictures |
The Ukulele Hall of Fame reference desk - A useful resource for older US and Hawaiian Ukuleles. |
The Ukulele Restoration barn a nice blog and a cheap restorer - has some nice ones for sale |
The Wood database - for information about Tone woods and things including illustrations of the various woods |
Tiki King - Ukulele makers database plus lots of other stuff |
Ukulele Corner is where all of my Ukulele's live |
Ukulele Friend - an online shop for some of the top Hawaiian made Ukuleles today (and some top old ones too) also keeps a good picture database of Ukuleles he has had in the past |
Ukulele Strummers Site - a nice general Ukulele Site |
UkuleleUnderground - the main Ukulele blogging forum |
US web shop specialising in quality experienced Ukuleles - has a lovely gallery too |
Vintage Banjo Maker - A database of Old Banjos there is some crossover and they need info too |
Vintage Mandolin Makers form Europe |
Vintage Ukes For Sale have a good photo archive. |
Weymann instrument serial numbers |
Yano's Ukulele Island - An interesting Japanese site with lots of photos of Ukuleles and some information on them in Japanese possibly more than here for some brands as I have trouble translating |
Youkulele.Com - the top Italian Ukulele Blog and Lessons site (in Italian) but he knows all about what's happening Ukulele wise in Italy |