ABBREVIATIONS:
JIFMC = Journal of the International Folk Music Council
JVSA = Journal of the Violin Society of America
PVSA = Proceedings of the Violin Society of America
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J. De Vilhena: "A Note on the Dundo Museum of the Companhia de
Diamantes de Angola" in JIFMC, 7 (1955)
LUANDA.
Museu Nacional de Antropologia. 40 Angolan
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--. Buenos Aires.
Museo Nacional del Hombre. 130 Latin American
--. Museo Teatro Colón. 40 Western art, many stringed, including I.F. Blanco collection.
"Isaac Fernández Blanco Collection" Violins, 11 (1950)
LA PLATA.
MUSEO Dr. Emilio Azzarini, Universidad Nacional de la Plata. 750 Western, native South American, and musical boxes
Perfil de un museo musical: exposicion (1987); C.E. Rausa: Instrumentos Musicales Museo Azzarini, Universidad Nacional de la
Plata (1994)
--. Museo de Ciencias Naturales, la Plata. 200 South American
M.E. Vignati, M.Y. Velo: "Lose Instrumentos musicales del Museo de
Ciencias Naturales de la Plata" Primeros Jornados Argentinos de Musicologia (1984)
SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY.
Museo de Ciencias Naturales 'Carlos Darwin'. 1500 archaeological, ethnological
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D. Casson: Collection of Musical Instruments [checklist] (1974)
QUEENSLAND.
Queensland Museum. 420 Australian, Asian, Pacific Rim
M.J. Kartomi: Musical Instruments in Indonesia (1985);
L.M. Bolton: Oceanic Cultural Property in Australia (1980);
L.M. Bolton, J.R. Specht: Polynesian and Micronesian Artifacts, 3v. (1984)
SYDNEY.
Powerhouse Museum (earlier Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences ). 600 European, some Chinese, Japanese, and Australian violins
B. Griffin, M. Lee: "A Brief History of the Musical Instrument
Collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney" in CIMCIM Bulletin, 21 (1994)
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--. Museum Vleeshuis. 500 mainly European especially keyboards including
Steen Museum and Koninklijk Vlams Muziekconservatorium, Antwerp, collections
P. Génard: Catalog du Musée d'antiquités d'Anvers (1894);
J. Douillez: Stad Antwerpen. Oudheidkundige musea, Vleeshuis: catalogus V, muziekinstrumenten (1956);
J. Lambrechts-Douillez: Muziekinstrumenten van het Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium te Antwerpen, catalogus V bis (1967);
J. Lambrechts-Douillez: "Antwerpse klavecimbels in het Museum Vleeshuis" in Restauratie problemen van Antwerpse klavecimbels Museum Vleeshuis, Ruckers Genootschap (1970);
J. Lambrechts-Douillez: Catalogus van de Muziekinstrumenten uit de verzameling van het Museum Vleeshuis (1981)
--. Volkskundemuseum. 120 traditional
BRUGGE.
Gruuthusemuseum.
[Checklist] in Glareana, 23/2 (1974);
M. Awouters, I. De Keyser, S. Vandenberghe: Catalogus van de muziekinstrumenten, Gruuthusemuseum, Brugge (1985)
BRUXELLES.
Bibliotheca Wittockiana. 500 worldwide rattles
I. Cammaert: Le hochet à travers les âges et les continents (1991)
--. Musée des instruments de musique, Conservatoire Royal de Musique. 6000 worldwide especially European art and traditional including part of Tagore (Indian), also Fétis, Contarini-Correr (17th-century Italian) and Snoeck (Low Countries) collections
V. Mahillon: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental au Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles, 5 v. (1880-1922);
C.C. Snoeck: Catalogue de la collection d'instruments de musique anciens ou curieux (1894);
C.C. Snoeck: Catalogue de la collection d'instruments de musique flamands et néerlandais de C.C. Snoeck (1903);
V. Mahillon: Catalogue abrégé du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (1912);
Exposition des instuments de musique des XVIème et XVIIème siècles [exh. cat.] (1969);
Instruments de musique: XVIème et XVIIème siècles [exh. cat.] (1972);
The Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments Bulletin [annual] (1971-1987);
N. Meeùs: Musical Instruments [exh. cat.] (1974);
Images de l'Univers [exh. cat.] (1974);
A. Caufriez: La Collection indonésian du Musée instrumental de Bruxelles (1980);
M. Haine, I. De Keyser: Catalogue des instruments Sax au Musée instrumental de Bruxelles (1980);
M. Haine: "Le Musée instrumental de Bruxelles. De prestigieuses collections" in Musique/Musiques, 3 (1983);
Instruments de musique anciens à Bruxelles et Wallonie, XVII-XIX siècles (1985);
A. Caufriez: L'instrument de musique traditionnel ibérique (1988);
M. Awouters, J. Timans, A. Meurant: Koninklijke instrumenten (1991)
GENT.
Bylokemuseum. 55 mainly wind.
C. Hollebosch-van Reck, I. De Keyser: Catalogus van de muziekinstrumenten (1978)
--. Seminarie voor Etnische Kunst. 100 from Africa, the Americas, Asia.
J. Vandenhoute, H. Burssens: De Ethnographische verzamelingen (1968)
GOOIK.
Ontmoetingscentrum "De Cam" [Cultural center for traditional music]. 300 Flemish.
H. Dewit: Muziek op hakkebord en klompviool, volksmuziek te kijk (1986);
J. Baeten, H. Dewit: Muziek van bij ons (1993)
LIÈGE.
Musée de la vie wallonne. 400 mostly Walloon traditional.
Les instruments de musique à Bruxelles et en Wallonie.
Inventaire descriptif (1992)
TERVUREN.
Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. 8000 mainly former Belgian Congo
E. Coart, A. De Haulleville: Notes analytiques sur les collections ethnographiques du Musée du Congo in Les art, 1 (1902);
Enquête sur la vie musicale au Congo Belge, 1934-35 in Archives d'Anthropologie, 11-13 (1934-35);
O. Boone: Les xylophones du Congo Belge in Annales du Musée Congo, Sciences humaines ser. 3, v. 3 (1936);
O Boone: Les tambours du Congo Belge et du Ruand-Urundi in [same], ser. 4, v. 1 (1951);
J. Laurenty: Les cordophones du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi in [same], 2 (1960);
J. Laurenty: Les sanza du Congo in [same], 4/2 (1962);
J. Laurenty: Les tambours à fente de l'Afrique central, 2 v. in [same], ser. 4/6 (1968);
J. Laurenty: La systématique des aérophones de l'Afrique centrale in [same], 2 v., n.s., no. 7 (1974);
M. Brandily: Instruments de musique...chez les Teda du Tibesti in ser. 8, no. 82 (1984);
J. Gansemans: Les instruments de musique du Rwanda in [same], 127 ( );
J. Gansemans: Volksmuziekinstrumenten, Getuigen en resultat van een interetnische samenleving in [same], 128 ( );
J. Laurenty: La répartition géographique des aérophones de l'Afrique centrale in [same], 129 (1990);
L. Verbeek: Initiation et mariage dans la chanson populaire des Bemba du Zaïre in [same], 139 (1993);
J. Laurenty: Organologie du Zaire, 1: Introduction et Bibliographie; 2: Les sanza, le xylophones, les tambours à fente; 3: Les membranophones in [same] ser. 8, nos. 144, 147, [3d at press] (1995, 1996)
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E. Galvão: Guia das exposicões de antropologia (1962)
RIO DE JANEIRO.
Museu Histórico Nacional. 50 Brazilian
J. Camêu: Instrumentos musicais dos indigenas brasileiros [exh. cat.] (1949)
--. Museo do Indio. 300 native Brazilian
--. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 1300 Brazilian
SÃO PAULO.
Museu Folclórico.
O. Alvarenga: Catálogo ilustrado do Museum Folclórico in Arquivo Folclórico, Discoteca Pública Musicipal, São Paulo (1950)
--. Museo Paulista, Universidade de São Paulo. 200 Brazilian
Revista do Museu Paulista
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75 Bulgarian
HASKOVO.
Okrajen istoriceski muzei [regional historical museum]. 80 Bulgarian
SOFIA.
Institut za Muzika. 130 European art and traditional, African, Asian
--. Naroden Etnografski Muzei. 130 ethnological
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GAOUA.
Musée provincial du Poni. 60 traditional
--. OUAGADOUGOU.
Musée de la musique. 100 Burkina Fasoan
Objets culturels voltai-ques [n.d.];
Art et artisanat Voltai-ques [n.d.];
Dernières acquisitions [n.d.];
Témoignages culturels Voltai-ques à Loudun [n.d.];
"Exhibitions: Burkina Faso" in CIMCIM Bulletin, 40 (Dec. 1999)
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--. FOUMBAN.
Musée Royal.
Ca. 100 Cameroon
C. Geary: Les choses du Palais (1983);
N.A. Njiasse: "Funérailles traditionnelles du Munchili,"
Revue Science et Technique de l'ISH, Ydé (1985);
N.A. Njiasse: l'Ensemble Artistique Royal de Foumban (1990);
Sonidos de America (1995)
--. YAOUNDÉ.
Musée de la Danse et de la Musique.
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V.T. Mendoza: "Musica precolombino en América" in Interamericano de Musica, 4 (1938);
J. Pérez de Arce: La música en América Precolombina [exh. cat.] (1982);
J. Pérez de Arce: "Cronología de los instrumentos sonoros del area extremo sur andina" in Revista musical chilena, 40/166 (1986);
J. Pérez de Arce: "Flautas arqueológicas del extremo sur andino" in Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 2 (1987);
J. Pérez de Arce: "Organología prehispánica de Chile" in Culturas prehispánicas de Chile, 2 (1993);
Musica en la piedra. Musica prehispanica y sus ecos en Chile actual (1995);
Sounds of America (1995)
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--. Exhibition Hall, Cultural Palace of Nationalities.
--. Palace Museum
CHANGSHA.
Hunan Provincial Museum
EAST LAKE, WUHAN.
Hubei Provincial Museum
Two-Tone Set-Bells of Marquis Yi [5th c.], C.Y. Chen, W.S. Tan, Z.M. Shu eds. (1992)
HONG KONG.
Hong Kong.
University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong.
Gems of Ancient Chinese Zithers: Shum's Collection of Antique Qin from the Last Millenium [exh. cat.] (1998)
SHENYANG.
Shenyang Palace Museum
TAIPEI, Taiwan.
Exhibition Rooms, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. 100 Asian especially excavated Chinese archaeological
--. National Museum of History.
Ca. 55 Hunan ancient, and Cantonese opera
URUMQI CITY, Xinjiang Province.
Museum of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
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E. Bermúdez: Catálogo: Colección de instrumentos musicales "J.I. Perdomo Escoba" (1986)
--. Museo Arqueologico y Ethnologico, Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia.
Colombian
--. Museo Organilogico Folklorico Columbiano. 110 Colombian
MEDELLÍN.
Museo Universitario. 80 Colombian
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--. --. Etnografický ústav (Ethnographic Division). 490 worldwide
--. Technické Muzeum
A. Buchner: Průvodce Expozicí Hudebních Automatofonů 19. Století [Mechanical instruments] [n.d.: 1975 or before]
BANSKÁ BYSTRICA.
Literárne a hudobné muzeum (Literary and Music Museum). 215 local art and traditional
KRASLICE.
Stredni prumyslová skola výroby hudebnich nástroju v Kraslicich
(Secondary School for Musical Instrument Making, Kraslice). 400 European
OPAVA.
Slezské zemské muzeum. 200 European many bowed
PRAG.
Narodni Muzeum v Praze, Muzeum czeské Hudby (Museum of Czech Music). 2800 art, traditional
Führer durch die Sammlungen des Museums des Königreiches Böhemen in Prag (1897);
A. Buchner: Pruvodce výstavou ceské hudebni nástroje v minulosti v brvnovském klástere sv. Markety (1950);
A. Buchner: Pruvodce skírkami hudebního oddevleni
Národniho muzea, Praha, Velkoprvvorský palác (1954);
A. Buchner: Pruvodce výstavou ceské hudebni nástroje v Nelahozevsi (1959);
Hudební nástroje v Národním muzeu (1970);
O. Oromszegi: "Bassoons at the Nrodni Museum" in GSJ, v. 24 (1971);
E. Hradecký, J. Keller, Z. Culka, M. Rutová: Catalogue expozice. Národní muzeum, Praha (1971, 1973);
Museum of Musical Instruments (1973);
J. Keller: "Pístevlníci a Trubarvi" in Sborník Národního Muzea v Praze, 29/4-5 (1975);
M. Puklický: "Die Holzblasinstrumente des Nationalmuseums, Prag" in Symposium zu Fragen des Instrumentenbaus Michaelstein/Blankenburg 1985, 6 (1986);
J. Keller: "Antique Trumpet Mutes" in Historic Brass Society Journal, 2 (1990);
L. Kunz, V. Svtajnochr: Nástroje lidové hudby ve sbírkách prazvkých muzeí, 2 v. (1990);
P.T. Young: "Letter from Europe" in AMIS Newsletter, 21/3 (1992);
B. Cvízvek: Klavichordy v cveských zemích (1993);
300 Years with the Pianoforte [in Czech, German, and English] (1999)
--. Narodni Muzeum v Praze, národopisné oddevleni Historického muzea [Ethnographic Department].
400 Czech traditional
--. Náprstkovo muzeum. 730 Asian, Oceanic, African, American ethnological
V. Kubica: "Al-Id-al-Kabir" in Náprstkovo muzeum Annals (1973);
V. Kubica: "Africké rytmy" in Náprstkovo muzeum Annals (1979)
--. Narodni technické muzeum. 110 automatic
A. Buchner: "Ceské automatofony" in Sborník Národního muzea v Praze (1957)
--. Vejenské muzeum [Military Museum]. 100 mainly European signal
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B. Svirola, M. Gavazzi: Muzikolosvki rad Etnografskog muzeja u Zagreb [catalogue] (1931);
J. Bezic et al: Tradicijska narodna glasbala Jugoslavije [catalogue] (1975)
--. Muzej grada Zagreba. 30 mechanical including Geresdorfer Foundation.
Automatofoni, muzicki automati [catalogue] (1963)
--. Muzej za Umetnost i Orbrt (Museum of Decorative Arts ).
Ca. 250 European art and traditional including the Hrvatski glazbeni zavod collection
--. Zavod A. Istrazvivanje Folklora (Institute of Folklore Research).
Ca. 120 Croatian
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H. Nyrop-Christensen: Klavier i 'Den gamle by' (1965);
H. Nyrop-Christensen: Musikhistoriske Randbemaerkninger (1983)
Copenhagen, see København
KØBENHAVN.
Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudius' Samling. 2200 art, traditional, ethnological, and archaeological
A. Hammerich: Musikhistorisk Museum (1909, 2/1911);
G. Skjerne: Carl Claudius' Samling af Gamle Musikinstrumenter (1931);
M. Andersen: Supplement zum Katalog (1960);
M. Müller: Classical Indian Musical Instruments (1969);
M. Müller: Trak & Tryk & Pust & Sug (1971);
M. Müller: From Bone Pipe and Cattlehorn to Fiddle and Psaltery (1972);
M. Müller: Keramik med Musik (1974);
M. Müller: Musik og mennesker i Thailands bjerge (1975);
Meddelelser 1-4 (1980-1994);
A. Norborg: Musical Instruments from Africa South of the Sahara (1982);
Flauto traverso (1984);
M. Müller: "Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudius' Samling" in CIMCIM Newsletter [special issue] (1986);
Masser of messing (1990);
Mandolin i Danmark (1991);
The Power of the Harp (1993);
M. Müller, L. Torp: Musikkens Tjenere-Instrument-Forsker-Musiker [Servants of Music-Instrument-Scholar-Musician] (1998)
--. Nationalmuseet, Etnografisk Samling. 2425 ethnological all continents including Lapland
--. --. Oldtid og Middelalder [Prehistoric, Medieval/Renaissance
Collections]. 40 including 15 lures
LYNGBY.
Danish Agricultural Museum. 250 mainly European and Asian cowbells
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QUITO.
Museo de Instrumentos Musicales, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Pedro
Pablo Traversari Collection.
Museo de Instrumentos Musicales 'Pedro Pablo Traversari' (1971);
R. Rephann: Catalogue of the Pedro Traversari Collection (1978)
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--. Mathaf al-Misri (Egyptian Museum).
Ca. 90 ancient Egyptian
H. Hickmann: Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée au Caire: instruments de musique (1949);
L. Manniche: Ancient Egyptian Musical Instruments (1975);
R. Engelbach: Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology with a Special Reference to the Egyptian Museum (1988)
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TARTU.
Gosudarstvennyj etnograficveskij muzej &Ering;stonskoj SSR (State Ethnographic Museum of the Estonian SSR ).
Ca. 380 traditional
J. Sööt: Kuuekeelne kanel (1990)
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KAUSTINEN.
Kausanmusikki Institutti. 300 Finnish traditional
TURKU.
Åbo Landskapsmuseum (Provincial Museum of Turku).
Ca. 75
Finnish traditional and European
--. Sibeliusmuseum (Åbo Akademi). 850 European art and traditional, African
The Swedish University of Turku (Åbo);
Sibelius Museum: Guide (1963, 1969 and later)
VARKAUS.
Mechanical Music Museum. 250
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ALGERIA
ALGIERS.
Musée du Bardo.
Centre de recherche en prehistorie, anthropologie et histoire. 65 North African and Sarahan
ANGOLA
DUNDO.
Museu do Dundo.
Missão de Recolha do Folcloro Musical. 100 Central African, mainly Luanda district
ARGENTINA
BUENOS AIRES.
Museo de Instrumentos Indigenas y Instituto Nacional de Musicologia "Carlos Vega". 300 South American, especially Argentenian
AUSTRALIA
NEDLANDS.
Department of Music, University of Western Australia.
Many Asian, and European including J. Payton collection
AZERBAIJAN, REPUBLIC OF
BAKU.
State Museum of Azerbaijan Musical Culture.
BELGIUM
ANTWERPEN.
Etnografisch Museum. 300 African, Asian, Australian, Oceanian
BENIN
PORTO-NOVO.
Musée ethnographique 'Alexandre Senou Adande'. 150 Beninese
BOLIVIA
LA PAZ.
Museo Nacional.
Bolivian BRAZIL BELÉ
M. Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. 400 Brazilian
BULGARIA
BLAGOEV GRAD.
Okrajen istoritcheski muzei [regional historical museum].
BURKINA FASO
(formerly Upper Volta).
BURUNDI
GITEGA.
Musée National.
Central African
CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH.
National Museum of Cambodia.
Cambodian
CAMEROON
BAMENDA.
Provincial Museum. 95 Cameroon
CHAD
ABÉCHÉ, Ouaddaï.
Musée National Abéché.
CHILE
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino. 100 pre-Hispanic, 40 ethnological
CHINA
BEIJING.
Ancient Bell Museum, Great Bell Temple
COLOMBIA
BOGOTA.
José Ignacio Perdomo Escobar Collection.
CUBA
HAVANA.
Museo Nacional de la Musica.
Afro-Cuban
CZECH REPUBLIC
BRNO.
Moravského zemského muzea (Moravian Country Museum). 350 Eastern European
CROATIA
ZAGREB.
Etnografski Muzej.
Ca. 750 Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Bosnian Herzegovinan, European traditional, and Non-European
DENMARK
ÅRHUS.
Købstadmuseete;Den gamle by' (The Old Town). 70 mainly Danish
ECUADOR
AZUAY.
Museo de las Artes Populares de America. 120 Andean
EGYPT
CAIRO.
Institute of Arabic Music.
Egyptian art and traditional including historic ouds
ESTONIA
TALLINN.
Eesti Teatri-ja Muusikamuuseum (Museum for Music and
Theater).
Ca. 600 Eastern European art, traditional
Ministerestvo Kultur &Ering;stonskoj SSR: Muzeij teatra i muzyki (1971);
Orelid ja osjapillid pasunad ja parmupillid muusikainstrumente Teatri-ja Muusika-muuseumis [Musical Instruments in the Theatre and Music Museum.
Catalogue.] (1978)
ETHIOPIA
ADDIS ABABA.
Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Department of Ethnography and Ancient Arts, Addis Ababa University. 200 Ethiopian
FIJI ISLANDS
SUVA.
Fiji Museum. 120 Fijian
FINLAND
HELSINKI.
Suomen Kansallismuseo (National Museum). 800 European art, traditional, ethnological
FRANCE
Other material on collections in France (excluding Paris) is mounted at
L'AIGLE. Musée Marcel Angot. 90 worldwide
ANGOULEME. Musée municipal. 225 prehistoric, African, Madagascan
ARLES. Musée Museon Arlaten. 120 mostly Provençal
AVIGNON. Musée Calvet. 75 Provençal, European, African, North and South American
BAYONNE. Musée Basque de Bayone. 38 Basque
Bulletin du Musée Basque
BORDEAUX. Musée d'Aquitaine. 145 Landes and Gironde regions, prehistoric, African, Asian
--. Musée d'ethnographie, Université de Bordeaux.
S. Fürniss: Instruments de musique et objets sonores. Catalogue (1992)
BOURG-EN-BRESSE. Musée de Brou. 30 hurdy-gurdies
La vielle en Bresse [exhibition catalogue] (1985); L. Moyret, "Les vielles de Jousé lo Ménétri," Art et Archéologie en Rhône-Alpes (1986)
BOURG-LA-REINE. Aristide Wirsta Collection. 100 French bows
CANNES. Musée de la Castre et de la mer. 300 European traditional, Central African, Asian, Polynesian, Central American
CHARTRES. Musée des beaux-arts. Ca. 10 keyboards, loan from Kenneth Gilbert collection
LA-COUTURE-BOUSSEY. Musée Hotteterre (formerly Communal d'instruments de musique à vent ).
240 wind
F. Getreau: "Le Musée instrumental de La-Couture-Boussey" in Tourneurs sur bois et manufactures d'instruments à vents en Haute Normandie (1980)
ECOUEN. Musée de la renaissance. 20 Renaissance European transferred from Musée de Cluny
E. du Sommerard: "Classe XVI. Instruments de musique" in Catalogue et description des objets d'art, de l'antiquité, du moyen âge et de la renaissance exposés (1883); E.A. Grillet de Givry: Notice sur les instruments de musique exposés au Musée de Cluny (1914); E. Haraucourt: Musée des Thermes et de l'hôtel de Cluny; catalogue des bois, sculptés et meubles (1925)
GIEN. Musée de la chasse. Ca. 60 horns
IVRY-LA-BATAILLE. François Camboulive collection in Thibouville manufactory. 250 wind
JENZAT. Les Amis de la Vielle de Jenzat, Centre de Recherche sur les musiques traditionnelles. Instruments from Berry-Bourbonnias and the Auvergne
--. Jean Michel Renard collection. 250 cornemuses and related instruments
LILLE. Musée de l'hospice comtesse. formerly the collection of Joseph and Pierre Hel, violin makers. Ca. 80 European art
A. Cordonnier, J. Dugot, J.-C. Magloire, M. Robin: La Collection Hel, instruments de musique anciens réunis par deux luthiers lillois [exhibition catalogue] (1990)
LOURDES. Musée pyrénéen. Ca. 40
LYON. Musée africain. 225
--. Eric Montbel collection. 112 mostly French bagpipes
E. Montbel, A. Ricros: Bouscatel, roi des cabretaires; les origines du bal-musette [with LP recording] (1984)
MARSEILLE. Musée Grobet-Labadié. 60 mostly Provençal
MIRECOURT. Musée de la lutherie
MONTEBELIARD. Musée du château. Ca. 70 prehistoric, European art, music boxes, African, Asian
MONTLUÇON. Musée du vieux-château. Ca. 400 French hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes, and fanfare
MACON. Musée des Ursulines. 35 African
E. Montbel: Le roseau et la musique (1988)
NANCY. Musée historique lorrain. Ca. 40 including prehistoric, European art, traditional
NANTES. Musée du château des Ducs de Bretagne. 68 worldwide
NICE. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Palais Masséna. 300 Provençal, Italian
"Un siècle de musique à Nice" in Nice historique, 2-3 (1994); M. Thomas: Clavecins et clavicordes. Catalogue d'exposition (1978); M. Foussard: "Catalogue sommaire des guitares du musée instrumental de Nice" in Guitares: Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections de France (1980)
--. Villa Beau-Site. Paul and Gisèle Tissier collection
R. Covington: "Musical Interlude" in Art & Antiques, 16/2 (Feb.&nsbp;1994)
PARIS. Nelly Caron Collection.
N. Caron, D. Safvate: Musique d'Iran. Collection les traditions musicales (1997)
--. Patrick Delile collection. Ca. 100 French and American cornets and trumpets
--. Kenneth Gilbert collection. Ca. 10 keyboards, most on loan to Musée des beaux-arts, Chartres.
--. Yannick Guillou collection. Ca. 20 mainly keyboards
C. Mercier-Ythier: Les clavecins (1990); M-C. Anselm: "La collection Yannick Guillou" in Musique, Images, Instruments: Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale, 3 (1997)
--. Bruno Kampmann collection. 250 mostly brass winds, including some by A. Sax
B. Kampmann: Catalogue de la collection d'instruments de musique à vent (1976); B. Kampmann: "Catalogue de la collection d'instruments de musique à vent" in Bulletin Larigot, numéro spécial, I (1991)
--. Musée de Cluny [Musée national des thermes et de l'Hôtel de Cluny], see Ecouen
--. Musée de l'Armée, Hôtel des Invalides. Ca. 230 European military and accessories
--. Musée de l'homme. 8000 worldwide, especially Asia, Central Africa, India
A. Schaeffner: Origine des instruments de musique (1938, r1994); C. Sachs: Les instruments de musique de Madagascar (1938); G. Dournon-Taurelle, J. Wright: Les guimbardes du Musée de l'homme (1978); G. Dournon: Guide pour la collecte des instruments de musique traditionnels (1981); G. Dournon: "L'héritage muséographique d'André Schaeffner: les collections d'instruments de musique du Musée de l'homme" in Les Fantaisies du voyageur. 33 Variations Schaeffner, RdM, 68/1-2 (1982); P. Sallée: Musique de l'Afrique noire (1982); A. Schaeffner: Le Sistre et le hochet: Musique, théâtre et danse dans les sociétés africaines (r1990)
--. Musée de la musique, Cité de la Musique, La Villette (formerly Musée instrumental du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique). Ca. 4200 European and ca. 300 extra-European; including Clapisson, part of Tagore (Indian), de Bricqueville, Tolbecque, André de Meyer, Geneviève Thibault de Chambure collections
G. Chouquet: Le Musée du Conservatoire national de musique: catalogue raisonné des instruments (1875); suppls. (1884 r1993, 1899, 1903); G. Thibault, J. Jenkins, J. Bran-Ricci: Eighteenth Century Musical Instruments: France and Britain [exh. cat.] (1973); F. Lesure, C. Massip, J. Bran-Ricci, F. Abondance [Gétreau]: Musiques anciennes. Instruments et partitions donnés à l'etat en paiement de droits de succession [exh. cat.] (1980); F. Abondance [Gétreau]: "Catalogue sommaire des guitares du Musée instrumental" in Guitares. Chefs-d'oeuvres des collections de France (1980); "La plastique des objets du son: la somptueuse collection Thibault de Chambure" Connaissance des arts, 345 (Nov.&nsbp;1980); "La facture instrumentale" [several articles on instruments] Metiers d'Art, 10-11 (1980); Les Instruments de musique, 1750-1800 [exh. cat.] Saintes (1982); Rameau, le coloris instrumental, Paris [exh. cat.] (1983); La Facture instrumental européenne: suprémates nationales et enrichissement mutuel [exh. cat.] (1985); J. Bran-Ricci: "Instruments à archet de la collection G. Thibault de Chambure, entrés au Musée instrumental du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris" in Instruments et musique instrumentale (1986); F. Gétreau: Instrumentistes et luthiers parisiens XVIIe-XIX siècle (1988); F. Gétreau: Inventaire descriptif des flûtes traversières. Musée instrumental du CNSM de Paris [typescript] (1989); Musée instrumental du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. Liste provisoire des pianos [typescript] (1989); F. Gétreau: Aux Origines du Musée de la musique: le Musée instrumental du Conservatoire de Paris, 1793-1993 (1995); Musée de la musique: Handbook (1995); Musée de la Musique: Guide (1997); M-F. Calas: "Musée de la Musique: A Museum in the Cité" in AMIS Newsletter, 26/3 (1997); Violins, Vuillaume, 1798-1875, un maître luthier français du XIXe siècle [exh. cat.] (1998)
--. Musee des arts décoratifs. Ca. 110 European
--. Musée du Louvre. Département des antiquités égyptiennes. Ca. 130 ancient Egyptian
--. Département des objects d'art. 20 European
C. Ziegler: Catalogue des instruments de musique égyptienne (1979)
--. Musée national des arts et traditions populaires. 3200 mainly French traditional
Musée national des arts et traditions populaires (1969); C. Marcel-Dubois: "The Objectives of Music and Musical Instrument Collections in a National Ethnological Museum" in Studia musico-museologica [symposium, Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum] (1970); C. Marcel-Dubois, M. Pichonnet-Andral: L'Instrument de musique populaire. Usages et symboles [exh. cat.] (1980); C. Marcel-Dubois: "Le Triangle et ses représentations come signe social et culturel" Imago Musicae (1987); Musiciens des rues de Paris: Musée national des arts et traditions populaires [exh. cat.] (1997)
--. Musée national des techniques, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers. Ca. 100 European including mechanical, tuning forks, metronomes, and experimental sound objects
Catalogue officiel des collections ..., 2e fasicule: physique (1905); Catalogue du musée du Conservatoire ..., section Z, automates, et mécanismes à musique (1960)
--. Musée de Radio-France. 1100 aparati: radio, television receptors, microphones, and a few instruments
--. Phonothèque Nationale. 400 instruments, music boxes, sound reproduction devices
C. Cros et al: De til en aiguille, catalogue d'exposition (1989)
PÉRIGUEUX. Musée du Périgord. 80 European, African, Madagascar, Near Eastern, Oceania, Latin America
PERPIGNAN. Musée de la Casa Païral. 277
RENNES. Musée d'art et d'histoire. Ca. 80 French, African, Asian traditional
SAINTE-MAXIME. Musée du Phonographe et de la Musique mécanique. 800 mechanical
SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE. Musée. M. Daubresse: La musique au musée de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1912)
SAINT-MICHEL-SUR-ORGE. Bachet collection. Ca. 50 created by the Bachet Brothers.
STRASBOURG. Musée des arts decoratifs. Ca. 60 regional art
LE THORONET. Jacques Dudon [inventor] collection. 225 water, photosonic, and acoustic
J. Dudon: La Musique de l'eau (1982); T. Nunn: "Water and Light" in Experimental Musical Instruments 3/5 (1988); J. Dudon: "Musiques harmoniques" in Journal of the Just-Intonation Network, 5/3 (1990): Synthèse photosonique, 1er Congrès français d'Acoustique, Lyon (1990)
TOULOUSE. Musée Paul-Dupuy. Ca. 60 European art and traditional
TULLE. Musée du Cloître. Ca. 25 mostly free-reed, including P. Monichon collection
P. Monichon: L'Accordéon (1971)
VERSAILLES. Musée et Domaine national de Versailles et de Trianon, Château. 2 harpsichords: J.Ruckers, 1628/1706, François Blanchet, 1746
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A. Lavondes: Catalogue des Collections Ethnographiques et Archeologiques (1966)
PUNAAUIA, TAHITI. Musée de Tahiti et des isles. Ca. 40 from area.
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P. Sallee: "Les arts musicaux au Gabon in L. Perrois et al: Gabon: Culture et techniques (1969)
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D. Arakchishvili: Opisanie i obmer narodnykh muzylaknykh istrumentov (1940)
--. Museum of Folk Instruments. 500 Georgian, other Caucasian, Eastern, and Western European
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LEGON, ACCRA. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Ca. 90 Ghanaian
K.M. Labi: Museum (1992)
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--. LEGON, ACCRA. Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Ca. 90 Ghanaian
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F. Anoyanakis: Instruments de musique populaires grecs (1965); F. Anoyanakis: Greek Popular Musical Instruments [exh. cat.] (1979); F. Anoyanakis: Greek Folk Musical Instruments (1979)
--. Nicolas Papageorgiou collection. 300 worldwide traditional
--. Research Center for Greek Folklore, Academy of Athinais. Ca. 80 Greek traditional
NAFPLION. Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation. Ca. 250 Greek traditional
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M. Camposeco, J. Balbino: Téson, china o kojom [The marimba of Guatemala] Colleción Tierra adentro, no. 13. Guatemala City: Subcentro Regional de Artesanías y Arts Populares (1992)
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--. Beregszászy Collection. 30 woodwinds with other items that belonged to the 19th-c. piano maker.
--. András and József Birinyi Collection. Ca. 210 European and traditional
J. Manga: Hungarian folk songs and folk instruments [in Hungarian and German] (1988)
--. Iparmüvszeti Múzeum (Decorative Arts). Ca. 25 especially keyboards
--. Institute for Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Ca. 110 traditional European
--. Lizst Ferenc Zenemüveszeti Föiskola. [Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre], Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. Ca. 100 woodwinds and strings including 8 mostly keyboards belonging to Liszt
Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum [cat.], M. Eckhardt, comp. (1986); G. Gábry: "Franz Liszts Klaviere" in Studia Musicologica, 17 (1978); G. Keeling: "The Liszt Pianos: Some Aspects of Preference and Technology" in New Hungarian Quarterly, 27/104 (1986)
--. Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Hangszergyüjteménye (Hungarian National Museum, Collection of Musical Instruments. Ca. 500 European including Delahes (string and keyboard), Schunda (wind) and Cathedral of Györ (18th-c. wind) collection
G. Gábry: Old Musical Instruments (1969); G. Gábry: "The Evolution of the Hungarian National Museum Music Collection" in Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 14 (1972); E. Gát-Fontana: "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung des Ungarischen Nationalmuseums" in CIMCIM Newsletter, 7 (1979); E. Gát [Fontana]: "'...Möly musica fiola gamba'nak hivattatik...' Re'gi vonós hangszerek a Magyar Nemzete Múzeumban" in Folia historica, 9 (1981); E. Gát: "Pest-Budai zongorakészítok" [Keyboard-Instrument Makers in Pest and Buda] in Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából, 23 (1991)
--. Magyar Néprajzi Múzeum Népzenei Gyüjteménye (Hungarian Ethnographic Museum, Music Collection). 1600 traditional and ethnological including the Biró collection
T. Bodrogi: Yabim Drums in the Biró Collection (1950); A Néprajzi Múzeum I: Hangszerkiállításának Hanglemezes Katalógusa (1966)
--. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Zenetörténeti Múzeuma (Hungarian Academy of Musicology, Music History Museum). Ca. 200 European art and traditional
--. Tibor Semmelweis Collection. 40 Hungarian violins, 25 tarogatos
EGGENBURG. Krahuletz Museum. European winds
P.T. Young: "Letter from Europe" AMIS Newsletter, 21/3 (1992)
KECZKEMÉT. Leskowsky Hangszergyüjtemény. Ca. 700 mostly Hungarian traditional
SOPRON. Soproni Múzeum. Ca. 20 including Lizst's 1864 piano
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ALWAR. Government Archaeological and Art Museum. Ca. 100 Indian
Catalogue and Guide of Museum [n.d.]; Arms-Museum [n.d.]
AMRELI, Gujarat. Shri Girdharbhai Sangrahalaya Children's Museum.
S.K. Bhowmik, J. Mudrika: The Heritage of Musical Instruments: A Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Museums of Gujarat (1990)
BARODA. College of Indian Music, Dance, and Dramatics. Ca. 150 Gujarat traditional
S.K. Bhowmik, J. Mudrika: The Heritage of Musical Instruments: A Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Museums of Gujarat (1990)
--. Museum and Picture Gallery. over 100
"A Brief Description of the Musical Instruments in the Museum & Picture Gallery, Baroda" in The Indian Journal of Society (1921); Exhibition of the Musical Instruments of India [folder] (1927)
BHUBANESHWAR. Orissa State Museum. Ca. 100 stringed and percussion
BOLPUR, West Bengal. Rabindra-Bhavana.
BOMBAY. National Centre for the Performing Arts.
--. Prince of Wales Museum of Western India. Ca. 50 Indian, Burmese, Tibetan
BHUBANESHWAR. Orissa State Museum. Ca. 100
CALCUTTA. Asutosh Museum of Indian Art, University of Calcutta.
--. Central Museum, Calcutta.
--. Cultural Research Institute.
--. Government Industrial and Commercial Museum.
--. Indian Museum. Ca. 100 Indian, Burmese, Tibetan including Asiatic Society of Bengal, S.M. Tagore, and Verrier Elwin collections
A.M. Meerwarth: Guide to the Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ethnograpic Gallery of the Indian Museum (1917); A.K. Chatterjee [cat. in preparation]
--. Marbel Palace Art Gallery and Zoo.
--. Rabindra Bharati Museum.
CHHINDWARA. Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum.
DELHI. Anthropology Museum, University of Delhi
DHARAMPUR, Valsad District, Gujarat. Lady Wilson Museum. Ca. 150, including tribal
S.K. Bhowmik, J. Mudrika: The Heritage of Musical Instruments: A Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Museums of Gujarat (1990)
GOA. State Museum.
GUWAHATI [GAUHATI], Assam. Assam State Museum, Musical Instrument and Ethnographic Sections. Ca. 50 Assamese
--. Anthropological Museum, University of Gauhati. Ca. 75
--. Commercial Museum, University of Gauhati
GWALIOR. Municipal Museum.
JAIPUR. Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum. 200 Indian art
LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh. State Museum. Ca. 70 Uttar Pradesh, Burma, Tibet
MADRAS. Government Museum and National Art Gallery. Ca. 230 Indian
P. Sambamoorthy: Catalogue of Musical Instruments Exhibited in the Madras Government Museum (1932, 2/1976)
--. Sangita Vadyalaya. 250 mainly Indian
P. Sambamoorthy: Struti Vadyas Drones (1957); P. Sambamoorthy: Laya Vadyas (1959)
MURSHIDABAD, West Bengal. Hazarduari Palace Museum.
MYSORE. Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Mysore.
NAGPUR. Central Museum. Ca. 50 tribal
NEW DELHI. National Handicrafts & Handlooms Museum
--. National Museum.
--. Sangeet Natak Akademi. Over 600 mainly Indian traditional
Indian Folk Musical Instruments [n.d.]
--. Sharan Rani Backliwal (sarod master) Gallery of Musical Instruments, National Museum. Ca. 400 Indian
PATIALA, Punjab. Sheesh Mahal Art Gallery.
PUDUKKOTTAI, Tamilnadu. Government Museum.
PUNE (POONA), Maharashtra. Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum. Ca. 500 Indian art, traditional
--. Tribal Welfare Museum.
RAJKOT, Gujarat. Watson Museum. Ca. 35 Indian
S.K. Bhowmik, J. Mudrika: The Heritage of Musical Instruments: A Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Museums of Gujarat (1990)
SHILLONG. Meghalaya State Museum. Indian tribal
VARANASI, Uttar Pradesh. Bharat Kala Bhavan (Benaras Hindu University)
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A.C. McGraw: "The Gamelan Semara Dana of Banjar Kaliungu Kaja, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia", M.A. thesis, Tufts University (1998); I.W. Rai: "Balinese Gamelan Semar Pagulingan Saih Pitu: The Modal System", Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland (1996)
JAKARTA. Wayang Museum
B. Cuthbertson: "The Wayang Museum in Jakarta" in Arts of Asia, 10/1 (1980)
MEDAN, North Sumatra. Muzium Negeri Sumatera Utara.
S.S. Roskymawati et al: Pralatan musik tradisional Batak Karo [Traditional musical instruments of Batak Karo peoples of North Sumatra]. Medan: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan, Museum Negeri Prop. Sumatera Utara (1992)
MELAKA. Hembaga Muzium Melaka, Muzium Budada.
SURAKARTA. Radyapostaka (Great Library). Javanese
YOGYAKARTA. Monument Pangeran Diponegoro. Javanese gamelan
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--. Honaresta-n-e A-li-ye Musiqi-ye Melli (National Conservatory of Music)
--. Niavaran Palace Museum.
--. Sabaz (Green) Palace Museum (Shavand Palace)
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Y. Ben-Zvi: ha-Musikah ba-;olam ha-a'tik [Music in the Ancient World] (1971, 2/1979); M. Gorali: Music in Ancient Israel (1972, 3/1977); "Major Exhibit Held in Tel-Aviv, Israel" in AMIS Newsletter, 14/3 (1985); M. Gorali: Magic Sounds: Musical Instruments of the Far East (1989); Musical Instruments in Biblical Israel (1991)
HERZLIYA. Leon and Luisa Zeldis Collection. Ca. 175 Central and South American including pre-Columbian, Asian
JERUSALEM. Rubin Academy of Music. Ca. 450 European and ethnological including the Koussevitzky, and Bellison collections
Musical Instruments Bequeathed by the Late Conductor Dr. Serge Koussevitsky to the State of Israel (1953); "Major Exhibit Held in Tel-Aviv, Israel" in AMIS Newsletter, 14/3 (1985); C. Abravanel: "The Yocheved Dostrovsky-Kopernik Exhibition of Musical Instruments" in Music and Time (1990/91)
NEGEV. The Museum of Bedouin Culture. Bedouin
TEL-AVIV. Central Library for Music and Dance. Ca. 400 including Tova Ben-Zivi, Edith Gerson-Kiwi (permanent loan: 300 mainly African, Asian, Arabic and Persian), and Benjamin Wasserman (permanent loan: worldwide strings) collections
E. Gerson-Kiwi: Permanent Exhibition of Musical Instruments: Catalogue and Classified Check-List (1963); "Major Exhibit Held in Tel-Aviv, Israel" in AMIS Newsletter, 14/3 (1985)
--. Amnon Weinstein (violin maker) Collection. Worldwide strings
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HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka prefecture. Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments. Ca.&nsbp;450 European including the Robert M. Rosenbaum Family Collection, and 150 Japanese
"Exhibit in Boston Honors Rosenbaum" in AMIS Newsletter 17/2 (1988); "Rosenbaum Family Collection in Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 21/2 (1992); Catalogues: 1. European Aerophones; 2. European Chordo-Membrano-Idiophones; 3. Keyboard Instruments; 4. Japanese Musical Instruments.
HIGASHIKURME-SHI [city], Tokyo prefecture. Oikawa Takao, Kofu--taimukan. Ca. 1000 Japanese instruments and accessories
HIRADO-SHI [city], Nagasaki prefecture. Matsura [family] Historical Museum, Tsurugamine Villa. Ca. 25 Japanese
KYOTO. Kyoto Prefectural Sogo Shiryokan. Ca. 400 Japanese
Nihon no gakki (1977)
--. Umenomiya Shrine.
"CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991)
--. Sen-oku Hakko Kan. Japanese and 40 Chinese bronze including the Sumitomo Kicheiemon Collection.
Catalogue of musical instruments (1982)
MATTO- -SHI [city], Tshikawa prefecture. Taiko-no-Sato Shiryo-kan, Asano Taiko Saishi Co., Ltd. worldwide percussion
Taikology [biannual periodical]
MATUE, Shimane prefecture. Matue Museum. Ca. 200 Japanese
NAGOYA. Atsuta Jingu- Ho-motsukan [shrine]. Ca. 30 early Japanese
--. Tokugawa Chu [Tokugawa Art Museum]. Ca. 70 early from Okinawa
NARA. Kasuga Shrine
"CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991)
--. Sankokan Museum, Tenri University. Ca. 1970 traditional
Sekai Minzoku Gakki (1968); "Chordophones" in Folk Musical Instruments, 1 (1969); Collection of Tenri University, Sankokan Museum (1986); "CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991)
--. Imperial Treasury of the Sho-so- in. Ca. 70 all 8th c.; memorial to Emperor Sho-mu.
K. Hayashi et al: Sho-so-in no gakki [Musical Instruments in the Sho-so-in (1957, 1966)
OSAKA. Museum of Musical Instruments, Osaka College of Music. Ca. 1760 European and Asian instruments and accessories including the Mizuno Sahei Collection
Catalogue of the Museum of Musical Instruments, Osaka College of Music (1984)
--. National Museum of Ethnology.
Kokuritu Minzokugaku Hakubutukan / National Museum of Ethnology (1990); Guide to the National Museum of Ethnology (1991)
SAKURA, Chiba prefecture. National Museum of Japanese History, Folklore Research Department. Japanese including the Collection of Tokugawa Kishu Family
Gagaku Musical Instruments Heirloom of Kishu Tokugawa Family (1982); Dan sui da [exh. cat.] (1992)
SHIMANE. Izumo Taisha Ho-motsuden [shrine]. Traditional Japanese
--. Miho Jinja Narimono shu-zo-ko [shrine museum]. Ca. 850 mainly Japanese
--. Mizuho Museum of Musical Instruments. Ca. 450 worldwide
Tsuchi no Oto (1986)
SHIMONOSEKI-SHI [city], Yamaguchi prefecture. Akama Jingo-Ho- motsuden [shrine]. Japanese
TOKYO. Drum Museum, Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten [drummaker company], Nishiasakusa Branch. Japanese drums
Catalogue of the Drum Museum, Tokyo (1991); "CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991)
--. Institute for the Study of Musical Instrument, Ueno Gakuen College. Ca. 140 European and African
N. Funayama, N. Uchino, C. Honma: Catalogue of the European Musical Instruments of the XVIIth, XVIII, and XIXth Centuries in the Ueno Gakuen Collection, 2 (1980, 1989); N. Uchino: "Catalogue of the European Musical Instruments in the Ueno Gakuen Collection" in Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America, 12 (1986)
--. Koizumi Fumio Memorial Archives, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). Ca. 670 Asian including Koizumi Fumio Collection.
Catalog of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Koizumi Fumio Memorial Archives, Faculty of Music, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (1987); "CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991)
--. Kunitachi College of Music, Gaakkigaku Shiryokan. Ca. 2000 European and non-European
Ud, Biwa, Lute (1980); Koto, Zither (1981); Bowed Stringed-Instruments (1983); Plucked Stringed-Instruments with Neck (1984); Harp, Lyre (1985); Lip Reed Instruments (1986); The Collection of Musical Instruments (1986); Reed Instruments (1987); Bagpipe (1988); Flute (1990); "CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991); Drum (1992); Zither II (1994); S. Gungi et al: The Collection of Musical Instruments, Kunitachi College of Music, Gakkigaku Shiryo-kan, 2 v. (1996)
--. Musashino Ongaku Daigaku (Musashino Academia Musicae, Museum of Musical Instruments). Ca. 4555 worldwide ethnologial
Musashino Ongaku Daigaku, Gakki Hakubutsukan mokuroku / Museum of Musical Instruments, Musashino Academia Musicae, 4 v. (1969-1985); "CIMCIM Members Travel to Japan" in AMIS Newsletter, 20/2 (1991)
--. Min-On Music Library Folk Musical Instruments Collection. Ca. 550 Asian, Middle Eastern, North and Latin American
--. Tokyo National Museum
--. Small Museum of Musical Boxes.
Music Gallery (1984, 2/1989)
--. Suntory Limited: Schambach-Kaston Collection. 87 European mainly bowed stringed
R. Rephann: The Schamback-Kaston Collection of Musical Instruments (1988)
--. Tokyo National Museum. Ca. 180 Japanese
--. Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University. Ca. 50 Asian
--. Akira Tsumura Collection. Plucked strings
Extraordinary Ukuleles: The Tsumura Collection from Japan [exh. cat., Honolulu Academy of Arts] (1993); A. Tsumura: One Thousand and One Banjos: The Tsumura Collection (1993)
UWAJIMA-SHI [city], Ehime prefecture. Uwajima City Date Museum. Ca. 40 Japanese including Uwajima Date Family Collection
YAMANASHI. Hall of Halls. Ca. 80 mechanical
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--. ATA MURA: Bolat Shamgalievitch Saribaev Museum. 300 archaeological and traditional Kazakh, Uigur, Uzbeg, Bashkir and Eastern Asian
B.S. Saribaev: Kazakh Musical Instruments (Russian: 1978; Kazakh: 1981)
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--. Institute of African Studies; University of Nairobi. Kenyan ethnological
P. Kavyu: Tradicionnye muzykal'nye instrumenty Kenii (1984)
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S. Subanaliev: Kyrgyzskie muzykalnye instrumenty (1986)
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Hye-Ku Lee: Photographs of the Musical Instruments in the Royal Conservatory (1939); Korean Classical Music Instruments (1959); Hye-Ku Lee: Musical Instruments of Korea (1966); I. Suh: Traditional Korean Stringed Instruments diss, India (1972)
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--. Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum. Ca. 200 Latvian traditional
I. Prieolíte: [Latvian Folk Music Instruments, in Latvian, Russian] (1978); I. Prieolíte: Ko spéleja senolienas (1983); [Folk Music Instruments, in Latvian, German] (1988)
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M. Baltreniene, R. Apanavicvius: Lietuviu Liaudies Muzikos Instrumentai (1991); M. Baltreniene: "Lietuviu Liaudies Muzikos Instrumentai Lietuvos Muziejuose" in Muziejai ir Paminkla, 5 (1991)
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M. Rakotomalala: "Le Laboratoire d'Ethnomusicologie de l'Institut de Civilisations de l'Université de Tananarive" CIMCIM Bulletin, 12 (1992)
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Pengenalan kepada alat-alat muzik tradisional Sabah [An Introduction to the Traditional Musical Instruments of Sabah] (1992); P.J. Kating: Alat-alat muzik tradisional Sabah: Warisan budaya kita bersama (1998) KUALA LUMPUR. Muzium Negara. Ca. 200 mainly Malaysian
Panduan Balai Kebudayaan Muzium Negara/Guide to the Cultural Gallery Muzium Negara (1986)
KUCHING. Sarawak Museum. Ca. 140 Southeast Asian especially Sarawak and Borneo ethnological
R.W.C. Shelford: "An Illustrated Catalogue of the Ethnographical Collection of the Sarawak Museum, pt. 1: Musical Instruments" in Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 40 (1904; repr.&nsbp;1965)
PECAN, Pahang. Lembaga Muzium, Negeri Pahang (State Museum of Pahang). 2 gamelans (one Pahang), 40 Southeast Asian and Indian
Mohd Taib Osman: Traditional Drama and Music of Southeast Asia (1974); Ku Zam Zam Ku Iduz: Muzik Tradisional Melayu dan Kedah Utara, esembel-esembel Wayank Kulit, Mek Melong dan Gendang Keling dengan tumpuan kepada alat-alat pemuzik-pemusik dan fungsi (1978); Ayub Ismail: Thesis Gamelan Malaysia Universiti Sains Malaysia (1980); Mohd Ghouse Nasuruddin: Muzik Melayu Tradisi (1989)
PECAN, Pahang. Koleski Muzium Sultan Abu Bakar.
M.M. bin Abu Bakar Dató, S. binti Yeop Tajuddin: Alat musik tradisional Pahang [Traditional Musical Instruments of Pahang: Kolesi Muzium Sultan Abu Bakar Pahang, Pekan, Pahang Darul Makmur] (1993)
RENGAT. Indragiri royal family. Gengang nobat ensemble
M.J. Kartomi: "The Royal Nobat Ensemble of the Indragiri in Riau, Sumatra, in Colonial and Post-Coloial Times" in GSJ, 50 (1997)
SIAK, mainland Riau along the Kampar River. Nobat (gamelan) ensemble [remnant]
TANJUNG PINANG, Riau Islands. Nobat (gamelan) ensemble [remnant]
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COZUMEL, Quintana Roo. Alejandro Alcocer Museum. Ca. 675 Prehispanic and Mexican
MÉXICO CITY. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artés, Investigaciones Musicales. Ca. 200 Pre-Columbian and ethnological including musical toys
C.S. Sodi: Catalógo de la Primera Exposición Internacional de Instrumentos Musicales (1969)
--. Laboratoria Museográfico, Universidad Ibero-Americana. Pre-Columbian and colonial Mexican
R. Hellmer: Panorama del instrumento musical en Mexico [exh.&nsbp;guide] (1968)
--. Museo Nacional de Antropología. Ca. 240 archaeological and ethn ological
R.M. Campos: "Los Instrumentos Musicales de los Antiguos Mexicanos" in Anales Museo Nacional de Antropología (1925); R.M. Campos: "The Musical Instruments of the Ancient Mexicans" in Pan American Union Bulletin, 60 (1926); S. Martí Guía de la Sala de Música Prehispánia (1954)
--. Museo Nacional de Artes e Industrias Populares del Instituto Nacional Indigenista. Ca. 140
--. Museo Nacional de las Culturas, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Ca. 60 ethnologial
Instrumentos Musicales en el Mundo [n.d.]
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TETOUAN. Conservatoire de Musique. Ca. 40 European especially Andalusian and Arabic
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M. Hamber, L. Stanners: Musical Instruments Through the Ages (1986); R.M. Moyle: The Sounds of Oceania: an Illustrated Catalogue of the Sound Producing Instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute and Museum (1989)
--. David L. Smith Collection. Ca. 160 European winds and some strings
DUNEDIN. Otago Museum. Ca. 350 mostly Oceanic, some Asian, African, European
J.C. Andersen: "Maori Music with its Polynesian Background" in Journal of the Polynesian Society v. 42, nos. 167-168 (1933, repr.&nsbp;1934)
WELLINGTON. National Art Gallery and Museum of New Zealand Te Whare Taonga o Aotearoa.
Ca. 100 incl. mostly Maori, some Marquesan and other ethnologial, some from Captain Cook
J. Andersen: Maori Music with its Polynesian Background (repr.&nsbp;1934); A. Kaeppler: Articifial Curiosities: Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook (1978); R. Neich: Pacific Cultural Material in New Zealand Museums (1982)
--. Victoria University of Wellington, School of Music, Ethnomusicology Section. Javanese gamelans, Thai/Cambodian mahori orchestra, Philippine Kulintang ensemble, Asian, Oceanian, African, Middle Eastern, and Jack Body Collection of Asian and Oceanian sound makers
T. Allan: "Gamelan in New Zealand, a Chronology" in 2, no. 3 Balungan (1986)
--. Zillah and Ronald Castle Collection. 500 European art and traditional, especially colonial New Zealand
Old Instruments in New Zealand: A Short Survey of the Zillah and Ronald Castle Collection of Early and Unusual Musical Instruments [n.d.: before 1975]
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JOS. National Museum. Ca. 1400 African
LAGOS. Nigerian Museum. Ca. 465 African
--. National Commission for Museums and Monuments. Ca. 1270
Laoye 1 (Timi of Ede): "Yoruba drums" in NIGERIA, 45 (1954); A.N.G. Okosa: "Ibo Musical Instruments" in NIGERIA, 75 (Dec.&nsbp;1962); W.W.C. Echezona: Nigerian Msical Instruments in Nigerian Culture [n.d.]; U. Bierer: "Three Igbin drums" in NIGERIA, 73 (Sept.&nsbp;1963); "Nigerian Drums: Sounds of Unity", [exh. mss., UNESCO] (1991)
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Musikkinstrumenter fra hele verden: Undervisningsopplegg. [n.d.]
DRAMMEN. Drammens Museum Fylkesmuseum for Buskerud. Ca. 85 Norwegian traditional, Western art
ELVERUM. Glomdalsmuseet. Ca. 61 art and Norwegian traditional
JAKOBSLI. Bjørn Aksdal Collection. Ca. 250 Norwegian traditional, worldwide ethnologial, some art
LILLEHAMMER. De Sandvigske Samlinger Maihaugen. Ca. 150 art, Norwegian traditional
OSLO. Etnografisk e Museum, Universitetets i Oslo. Ca. 300 non-European including African especially Zaire, Asian (Borneo, and Chinese ) from King Oskar II
O. Aarflot: Kinesisk musikk (1948); A.M. Klausen: Totem, tam-tam, duk-duk, Glimt fra Universitets Etnografiske Museums samlingar (1961)
--. Norsk Folkemuseum. 270 art, mainly Norwegian traditional including loan from Norges musikkhøgskole, Oslo: the Trygve Lindemans, and Olav Gurvins collections (280 European art and traditional, African, and Asian)
H. Fett: Musik-Instrumenter Katalog (1904); P.A. Kjeldsberg: Checklist og Olav Gurvins Instrumentsamling (1975)
SKIEN. Fylkesmuseet for Telemark og Grenland. Ca. 50 art and Norwegian traditional
TRONDHEIM. Ringve Museum. Ca. 1700 Western art and traditional, non-European including the Victoria Bachke collection
K. Michelsen: Katalog over musikalieutstillingen [exh. cat.] (1975); H.Sivertsen: Det Trondhjemske Musikalske Selskab av 1786, 1 (1975); B. Aksdal: Musikk-instrumentenes historie i de islamske kultur-områder (1980); P.A. Kjeldsberg: Musikinstrumenter ven Ringve Museum, 2 (1981); K. Michelsen: Katalog over musikalieutstillingen [exh. cat.] (1975); [Nine temporary exhibition catalogues on various subjects, 1976-1990]; B. Aksdal: Musikkinstrumentenes historie ide islamske kulturområ der (1980); P.A. Kjeldsberg: "Ringve Museum in Trondheim" CIMCIM Newsletter [special issue] (1986); P.A. Kjeldsberg: Piano i Norge--et uundvaerligt Instrument (1985); P.A. Kjeldsberg: leve langeleiken! (1987); Johan Daniel Berlin 1714-1787, ed. K. Michelsen, (1987); P.A. Kjeldsberg: Ringve Museum Trondheim. Utgitt av Ringve Museum Venner (1988); S. Gutormsen, P.A. Kjeldsberg, J. Voigt: Ringve Museum, Trondheim (1988); P.A. Kjeldsberg: Barokkorgelet i Nidarsdomen, bygget av Joachim Wagner 1739-41,Restaurert av Jürgen Ahrend 1993-4 (1995)
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KARACHI. National Museum of Pakistan
SAIDU SHARIF, Swat. Swat Archaeological Museum
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PORT MORSBY. Papua and New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery.
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A. Pusineri: Guia ilustrada del Museo Etnografico 'Andres Barbero' (1989)
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BUTAN CITY. National Museum
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY. Museo de Oro, Xavier University. Ca. 100 traditional, many percussion
CEBU CITY. University Museum, University of San Carlos
INTRAMUROS, MANILA. Intramuros Administration Museum
MANILA. National Museum of the Philippines. Ethnological
--. UST Museum of Arts and Sciences, University of Santo Tomas
MARAWI CITY. Aga Khan Museum, Mindinao State University. Ca. 100 Philippine and Asian
PACO, MANILA. Museum of Asian Instruments, College of Music and Fine Arts, Philippine Women's University. Ca. 925 Philippine and Asian including Norberto Romualdez, Lucrecia R. Kasilag, and Jose Maceda collections
Museum of Asian Instruments, College of Music and Fine Arts, Philippine Women's University (1971); J. Macada et al: Musika: A Documentary on Philippine Ethnic Music videocasette (1992)
PASAY CITY. Metro Manilla. Ramon Obusan Folkloric Center. Ca. 100 Asian
QUEZON CITY. Anthropology Museum, University of the Philippines. 300 Philippine and Asian
ZAMBOANGA CITY. WMSU Ethnological Museum, Western Mindanao State University.
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BYDGOSZCZ (Bromberg). Filharmonia Pomorska, Kolekcha Zabythowych Foretpianów. Ca. 40 pianos after 1830
B. Vogel: Kolekcja zabythowych fortepianów Filharmoii Pomorskiej (1987)
CZESTOCHOWA. Skarbiec na Jasnogorski [monastery Klasztor 00. Paulinów]. 17th-c. European art
Zdisl/aw Szulc: Katalog instrumentów muzycznych [exh. cat. Muzeum Wielkopolskie, Poznán] (1949); Z. Rozanow et al: Skarby kultury na Jansej Górze (1974)
GDAN'acute;SK. Muzeum Narodowe w Gdan'sku. Ca. 100 Polish traditional Pawel/Szefka: Narzedzia i instrumenty muzycsne z Kaszub i Kociewia (1982)
KRAKO'acute;W. Muzeum Etnograficzne. Ca. 400 traditional, half Polish, also African, South American, Asian
--. Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowe. Ca. 75 Western art and traditional, 17th- to 20th c.
W. Kamin'ski: Instrumenty muzyczne na ziemiach polskich (1971); W. Kamin'ski: Skrzypce polskie (1969)
L/AN'acute;CUT. Muzeum-Zamek w L/an'acute;cucie
L/ODZ'acute;. Muzeum Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne w L'odzi. Ca. 85 Polish traditional
OPATO'acute;WEK. Muzeum Historii Przemysl/u [Industrial History Museum]. Ca. 25 pianos and orchestrion
POZNAN. Muzeum Instrumentów Muzycznych, Oddzial/ Muzeum Narodowego w Poznaniu. Ca. 1700 European art and traditional especially Polish bowed strings, non-European, including the Zdislaw Szulc collection
Z. Szulc: Katalog instrumentów muzycznych ze zbiorow Zdislawa Szulca Wystanwionych na Wystawie Muzycznej w Museum Miejskin w Poznaniu (1939); Z. Szulc: Katalog instrumentpów muzycznych [exh. cat.] Muzeum Wielkopolskie, Poznán] (1949); W. Kaminski: "Muzeum instrumentów muzycznych w Poznaniu, historia zbiorow" in Kronika miasta Poznania, 27 (1959); W. Kaminski: Skrzpce polskie Kraków [Polish violins] (1969); I. Kalemba: Muzeum instrumentów muzycznych (1983); R. Polczynski: "Od prywatnej kolekcji do swiatowego muzeum" in Ruch muzyczny, 31/32 (1987); "Szkocka kultura muzyczna" [Scotland's Music; exh. cat.] (1994)
PRZEMYS'acute;L. Muzeum Narodowe Ziemi Przemyskiej. Ca. 60 art and traditional
Instrumenty muzyczne Pogórza Karpackiego [Folk instruments from Carpathian Region, n.d.]
RZESZO'acute;W. Muzeum Okregowego w Rzeszowie. Ca. 90 Polish traditional
J. Pekacz: Z/ródl/ado badan'acute; nad instrumentarium muzycznym w zbiorach [Scientific Research Sources on Musical Instruments in the Ethnographical Department of the District Museum in Rzeszów, n.d.]; A. Kopoczek: Ludowe instrumenty muzyczne polskiego obszaru karpackiego: Instrumenty dete [Traditional instruments in the Polish Carpathian region: Wind instruments] (1996)
SZYDL/OWIEC. Muzeum Lodowych Instrumentów Muzycznych. Ca. 2000 Polish traditional including Jadwiga Sobieska collection
WARZAWA. Muzeum Azji i Pacifiku (Asian and Pacific Museum). Ca. 210: including 70 Indonesian gamelan, anklung and others from Andrzej Wawrzyniak collection.
--. Kolekcja Instrumentów Lutniczych, Zwiazek Polskich Artystów Lutników (Ministry of Colture Collection supervised by Polish Artists and Violin Makers Association). Ca. 150 mostly violin family
--. Pan'stwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne (National Museum of Ethnology). Ca. 370 Polish traditional, plus ca. 465 Asian, Australian, African, American
A. Dobrowolski: Polskie instrumenty muzyczne. Katalog wystawy (1966); J. Sobieska: "Na Marginesie muzycnych z terenu Mazowskza" in Muzyka: kwartalnik pozwiecony historii i teatri, 12 (1967); T. Lewin'ska: Polonkusrsowa wystawa ludowych instrumentów muzycznych z tereno Mazowsza (1975); M. Sztrantowicz: Afgan'skie ludowe instrumenty muzyczne (1985); T. Lewin'skia: "Ludowe instrumenty muzyczne w zbiorach Pan'stowowego Museum Etnograficznego w Warszawie" in Poradnik Muzyczny, 7-8 (1988), also in Instrumenty muzyczne w polskiej kulturze ludowej (1989); T. Lewin'ska: Folkenkunst fra Polen (1990)
--. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. Ca. 40 European art
--. Muzeum Techniki, Dzial/ Mechaniznów Grajacych. Ca. 65 mechanical
Katalog Koleckji Aktualnie w Opracowaniu
WROCL/AW (Breslau). Muzeum Etnograficzne, Oddzial Museum Narodowego we Wrocl/awiu.
ZAKOPANE. Muzeum Tatrzan'skie im Tytusa Chaubin'skiego. 183 Polish traditional
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E. Tarr: "Die Musik und die Instrumente der Charamela real in Lissabon" in Basler Studien zur Interpretation der alten Musik. Forum Musicologicum, 2 (1980)
COIMBRA. Museu e Laboratorio Antropologico, Universidade de Coimbra. Ca. 250 African, Southeast Asian, Brazilan, Portuguese
LISBOA. Museu Etnografico do Ultramar, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Overseas Ethnographic Museum of the Lisbon Geographic Society). Ca. 100 from former Portuguese colonies
M. Dias: "Os instrumentos musicais de Moçambique" in Geographica, 2, no. 6 (April&nsbp;1966)
--. Museu de Música, Instituto Português dos Museus (formerly Museu Instrumental do Cónservatório Nacional). Ca. 800 European art and traditional, especially Portuguese including Alfredo Keil, Michelangelo Lambertini, António Lamas and King D. Lúis I
Breve notíca dos instromentos de música antigos e modernos da collecça- o Keil (1904); M. Lambertini: Primeiro nucleo de um museo instrumental em Lisboa: Catálogo summario (1914); M.A. de Lima Cruz: "O museum instrumental" in Boletim do Cónservatorio nacional e revista panorama, 1/1 (1946-47); G. Doderer: Clavicórdios portugueses do século XVIII (1971); B. Brauchli: "Comments on the Lisbon Collection of Clavichords" in GSJ, 32 (1980); Instrumentos musicais 1747-1807: uma colecção à proura dum museu (1984); Com Eles se fez Música, Instrumentos de uma colecção esquecida (1989); Fabricas de Sons. Instrumentos de música europeus dos séc. XVI a XX (1994)
--. Museu de São Roque, Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa
MAFRA. Basilica. 6 organs
PONTA DELGADA, Açores. Centro de Estudos Etnologicos, Universidade dos Açores. Traditional Açorean
QUELUZ. Palácio Nacional de Queluz
Instrumentos Musicais 1747-1807 uma Colecça-o à procura de um Museu (1984)
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GRAHAMSTOWN. International Library of African Music, Rhodes University. Ca. 200 African mostly Southern African including the Hugh and Andrew Tracey collection
African Music [institutional journal] (1954- )
JOHANNESBURG. Africana Museum. Ca. 200: 150 South-African tribal, 50 European
--. Harold Steafel Collection. Ca. 280 ethnologial including 50 European
--. University of the Witwatersrand. Includes the Hans Adler keyboard collection
RONDEBOSCH. Department of Music University of Cape Town [formerly in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg). Over 550 South African, European, and worldwide ethnological, primarily the Percival R obson Kirby c ollection
P.R. Kirby: The Musical Practices of the Native Races of South Africa (1934, repr.&nsbp;1965); P.R. Kirby: Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa (1934, repr.&nsbp;1953); M.M. de Lange: Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the Collection of Prof. P.R. Kirby (1967)
SOUTHERNWOOD. East London Museum. Ca. 70 indigenous South African
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--. Muzeul de arta popularav& grave;Dr. N. Minovicí, a section of Muzeului de artava R.S. Romavia. Ca. 50 worldwide ethnological, including the Dr. Nicolae Minovici collection
--. Muzeul muzicii romanesti
--. Muzeul satului s,i de artavpopularav [formerly Muzeul de artava republicii]. Ca. 850 worldwide
CLUZ NAPOCA. Muzeum Etnografic al Transilvaniei. Ca. 280 Transylvanian traditional
--. Muzeum de Istorie al Transilvaniei. Ca. 50 art
A. Ardos, S. Lakatos: "Instrumentele muzicale ale muzeului de istorie Cluj" in Acta Musei Napocensis, 3 (1966); M. Ardács, I. Lakatos: "Musikinstrumente im historisches Museum Klausenburg" in Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarium Hungaricae, 15 (1973)
IAS, I. Muzeul etnografic al Moldovei R.S. Romania. Ca. 60 regional
--. Muzeum politehnic, Sectia inregistrarea s,i reproducerea sunetului [Polytechnic Museum, Sound Recording and Reproduction Section]. Ca.&nsbp;60 mechanical
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Muzkal'nye instrumenty narodov Sovetskogo Sojuza v fondach Gosudarstvennogo central'nogo muzeja muzykal'noj kul'tury imeni M.I. Glinki: Katalog [Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture: Catalogue] (1977; English 1985); Pauline Holden: "Galpin Society Members Visit Soviet Museums" in AMIS Newsletter, 17/1 (1988)
--. Gosudarstvennyj Instorcveskij Muzej (State History Museum). Ca. 200 worldwide
--. Committee on Moscow Culture, Museum Ostankino. Ca. 20 European art formerly in the Hermitage
--. Alfred M. Mirek Collection of accordeons. Ca. 100; another 100 given to Saint Petersburg Museum of Music, Theatre and Cinematography
A.M. Mirek Iz istorii akkordeona i bajana [History of Accordeons and Bayans] (1967); A.M. Mirek: Bavans (1968); A.M. Mirek: Schema vozniknovenija i klassifikacija osnovych vidov garmonik. Spravocvnik [Schematic classification of harmonicas in the world] (1989, 1992); A.M. Mirek: Garmonika. Prosv loe i nastojasvcvee. Énciclopedija [Harmonicas: Past and Present, an Encyclopaedia] (1994)
--. State Collection of Antique Bowed String Instruments. 240 European loaned to performers
SAINT PETERSBURG (formerly LENINGRAD ). Muze j a ntropologii i e 'acute;tnografii imeni Petra I (Anthropology and Ethnography Museum). 1500 ethnological, mainly Asian including Peter the Great's collection
--. Gosudarstvenn yj m uze j e tnografii n arodov Rossijskoj Federacii. Ca. 1000 traditional from throughout the former U.S.S.R.
--. Museum of Musical Instruments (formerly Muzej muzykal'nych instrumentov, teatra, muz y ki i k inematografii (State Museum for Theater, Music, and Cinematography). Ca. 3500 European and non-European (Russian, Siberian, Ukranian) art, traditional, and ethnological founded ca.&nsbp;1900 by Baron de Stackelberg, director of St. Petersburg Imperial Chapel Music Museum that became the third César Snoeck collection; also Nikolaj Pirvalov, half (100) of the Alfred Mirik (accordeon), and Mr. Valery Bruntsev collections.
J.H. Johnson: "The Exhibition in St. Petersburg, Department for Musical Instruments" in Musical Opinion, 25 (1901/2); G.I. Blagodatov, K.A. Vertkov: Postojannaja vystavka muzykal'nykh instrumentov (1962); G.I. Blagodatov: Katalog sobranija muzykal'nych instrumentov [Catalogue of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography] (1972); Look of Music [exh. cat.. Vancouver] (1980); Pauline Holden: "Galpin Society Members Visit Soviet Museums" in AMIS Newsletter, 17/1 (1988); M. Birley: "Report on a Conference at the St. Petersburg Museum of Musical Instruments...1998" CIMCIM BULLETIN, 36 (1998), repr. AMIS Newsletter, 27/3 (1998); V. Koshelev: "Das St. Petersburger Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Zur Geschichte seiner Entstehung" in Musica Instrumentis, 2 (1999)
--. Vonno-istoricveskji muzej artillerii (Historical Military Museum), begun 1756. Ca. 120 horns and drums
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--. Musée d'a rt a fricain, University of Dakar. Ca. 1500 Senegalese
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Narodni muzicki instrumenti jugoslavie (1967)
--. Institute of Musicology, Academy of Serb Sciences and Arts. Ca. 60 regional
--. Universitet Umetnosti, Muzivcka Akademija, Fakultet Muziv cke. Ca. 500 mostly Eastern European
--. --. Muzej africke. Ca. 40 African
A. Gojkovic'acute;: Africki muzicki instrumenti [catalogue] (1987)
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I. Macvák: Zoznom slovenských l/udových hudobných nástrojov. Dotazník (1967); Hudobné zbierky Slovenského Národeného Núzea / Musiksammlungen des Slowakischen Nationalmuseums, 1965-75 (1975); Hudobné Nástroje na Slovensku [Musical Instruments in Slovakia] (1975); Oravská Polora: Podoby a kontexty hudby / Forms and Contexts of Music ed. I. Macvák (1990)
MARTIN. Slovenské n árodné m úzeum, Etnograficky ustav (Slovak National Museum, Ethnological Division). Ca.&nsbp;270 ethnological
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--. Narodni muzej Ljubljana. Ca. 20 European art
--. Slovenski etnografski muzej
Medgodici in glasbili na Slvenskem: razgledi [Among Folk Musicians and Instruments in Slovenia] (1991)
MARIBOR. Pokrajinski muzej Maribor. Ca. 30 European art and traditional
PTUJ. Pokrajinski muzej Ptuj, Zbirka glasbil (Provincial Museum Ptuj, Musical Instrument Collection). Ca. 250 European art and traditional, ca. 30 Asian, African
H. Druzovicá: "Iz ptujske glasbene pretklosti" in Kronika slvenskih mest, 5/3 (1938); D. Koter: Glasbila na ptujskem gradu. Instrumentarij salonov ter mescanskih im plemiskih in plemiskih kapel (1994); D. Koter: "Musical Instruments in the Landscape Museum in Ptuj, Slovenia" in CIMCIM Bulletin, 25 (1995)
NOVO MESTO. Dolenjski muzej. Ca. 150 European and non-European traditional
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BARCELONA. Muse u de la Mú sica. Ca. 1410 European art and traditional from diverse cultures
J. Griffiths: "Lutes in the Museum Municipal de Musica Barcelona" in Journal of the Lute Society of America, 12 (1979); B. Kenyon de Pascual: "Brass instruments in the Museo de la Música in Barcelona" in Brass Bulletin, 70 (1990/2; Museu de la Música: Catàleg d'instruments (1991)
BILBAO (BIZKAIA). Euskal Arkeologia, Etnografia eta Kondaira Museoa (Museo Arqquologico, Etnografico e Historico Vaso). Ca. 50 Basque popular
Euskal Soinu-Tresnak: Instrumentos Musicales Vascos (1988)
CARBONERO EL MAYOR, Segovia. Lorenzo Sancho Collection. Ca. 100 Spanish traditional, half dulzians
GIJON, Asturias. Museo de la Gaita (Museum of the Bagpipe). Ca. 75 popular including 56 cornamuses and related materials
R. Meré: Museo Internacional de la Gaita: Catálogo (1970); R. Meré: Gaitas y gaiteros de Grecia (1977); A. García-Oliva: Catálogo de las cornamusas del Museo de la Gaita (1992)
MADRID, Biblioteca Musical, Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Ca. 60 keyboard and stringed
Catálogo de la Biblioteca Musical (1946); Catálogo de la Biblioteca Musical. Apéndice I (1954); J. Espinós Orlando: Catálogo de la Biblioteca Musical. Apéndice II (1973)
--. Félix Hazen Collection. Ca. 35: mainly pianos, also harmoniums and mechanical
C. Bordas: Hazen y el Piano en España. 175 años (1989)
--. López Nieto Collection. Ca. 50 mostly Spanish classical guitars
--. Museo Arqueológico Nacional. Ca. 25, mainly keyboards
--. Museo de America. Ca. 50 Latin American traditional
P. Cabello: "Precolumbian Musical Instruments in the Museo de América, Madrid: An approach by a museologist (with descriptive catalogue)" in Archaeology of Early Music Cultures (1988); P. Cabello, C. Martínez: Música y arqueología en América Precolombina: Estudia de una colección de instrumentos y escenas musicales (1988)
--. Museo Municipal de Madrid. 7 pianos, 3 guitars
Madrid romántico [exh. cat.] (1961); Catálogo de la plata (1991); C. Bordas: "Los pianos Hosseschrueders y Hazen" in Hazen y el Piano en España. 175 años (1989); Catálogo de la plata (1991); La Guitarra Española [exh. cat.: N.Y. Metropolitan Museum of Art] (1992)
--. Museo Nacional de Antropología (including 100 formerly in Museo Nacional de Etnología, and 200 formerly in Museo Nacional del Pueblo Español collections). Ca. 300 diverse ethnological and European art and traditional, many Spanish
--. Museo Romantico. 9 pianos.
--. Palacio Real de Madrid. Ca. 300 strings, wind, percussion
--. Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. Ca. 120 European art and traditional
ORENSE. Escola de Gaitas. Ca. 40 European and African bagpipes
PAMPLONA. Ortzadar Euskal Folklore Taldea. Ca. 50 Basque
URUEÑA, Valladolid. Centro Etnográfico Joaquín Díaz, Diputacion Provincial de Valladolid. Ca. 300 Castillian and Leónese traditional
J. Díaz: Instrumentos populares, 5, Cuadernos Vallisoletanos (1986); J. Díaz: Instrumentos populares (1997)
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ESKILSTUNA. Eskilstuna Konstmuseum. Ca. 50 European art and regional traditional
FALUN. Dalarnas Museum, Läns museum för Kopparbergs län. Ca. 100 mainly regional traditional, some art.
GÄVLE. Länsmuseet i Gävleborgs län. Ca. 50 art and Swedish traditional
GÖTEBORG. Göteborgs e tnografiska m useet. 2000 ethnological: important South American collection, also Central and North American, many African, Asian (18th-c. Chinese ), Australian and Oceanian ethnological
W. Kaudern: Musical instruments in Celebes (1927); K.G. Isikowitz: Musical and Other Sound Instruments of the South American Indians (1935)
--. Göteborgs h istoriska museum. Ca. 280 European art and traditional, especially from western Sweden
B.A. Nordin: Musikhistoriska avdelningen (1923); O. Thulin: Historiska avdelningen Göteborgs Museum. Musikinstrument (1931); T. Norlind: Musikinstrumentens historia (1941)
HÄLSINGBORG. Hälsingborgs museum. Ca. 7500 European art and traditional including Daniel Fryklund collection.
D. Fryklund: Collection Fryklund. Musica (1929); D. Fryklund: "Samlingen av musikinstrumente i Hälsingborgs Museum" in Kring Kärnan, Hälsingborgs Museums Årsskrift (1939); D. Fryklund: Hälsingborgs Museum. Utställning av Musikinstrumente ur Daniel Fryklunds Samling i Hälsingborg (1945); D. Fryklund: Collection Fryklund 1949 (1949)
KALMAR. Kalmar läns museum. Ca. 70 art and Swedish traditional
KARLSKRONA. Blekinge läns museum. Ca. 55 mainly European art
KRISTIANSTAD. Kristianstads läns museum. Ca. 50, military ensemble
S. Ossiannilsson: Wendes Regementes Historia 1794-1944 (1944)
LANDSKRONA. Landskrona Museum. Ca. 60 European art mainly wind, some traditional
H. Nilsson: "Instrumentmakare I.V. Wahl och hans verkstad" in Kulturens årsbok 1942 (1942)
LINKÖPING. Östergötlands länsmuseum. Ca. 100 European art and regional traditional
LUND. Kulturhistoriska museet. Ca. 500 European art, traditional, and archaeological, acoustic and mechanical used in Sweden
Kulturen: A Guide to the Museum of Cultural History in Lund ( ); B. Vogel: "Historic Keyboard Instruments of the Academic Orchestra in Lund" in GSJ, 51 (1998)
ÖREBRO. Örebro läns museum. Ca. 45 regional art and traditional
Från Bergslag til Bondebygd (1992)
ÖSTERSUND. Jämtlands läns museum. Ca. 60 regional traditional
K. Tiré En primitiv fela (1918); K.A. Öberg: Fiolbyggaren E.W. Munter (1988)
SKARA. Skaraborgs länsmuseum (formerly Västergötlands länsmuseum). Ca. 240 European art and traditional
S. Welin: Musikhistoriska Avdelningen vid Västergötlands Fornmuseum i Skara (1924)
SKELLEFTEÄ. Skellefteä Museum.
STOCKHOLM. Armémuseum. Ca. 140 military: wind and percussion, 17th-20th c.
--. Folkens Museum, Etnografiska (National Museum of Ethnography). 2700 African, Asian, American, Oceanian, ethnologial including the Vanadis collection
S. Martí: "Precortesian Music" in Ethnos [Folkens Museum journal], 19/1-4 (1954); B. Söderberg: Les Instruments de musique au Bas-Congo et dans les régions avoisinantes (1956)
--. Statens Sjö historiska Museum. Medieval
--. Statens Musiksamlingar Musikon museet. Ca. 6500 European art, traditional, African, Asian, and South American ethnologial including 1045 traditional from the Nordiska Museet
J. Svanberg: Musikhistoriska Museet i Stockholm Instrumentsamling (1902); H. Boivie: Nordiska Museet, M sikavdelningingen (1912); T. Nordlind: "Musikhistoriska Museet i Stockholm" in STMf, 2 (1920); T. Nordlind: En bok om musikintrumente (1928); E. Emsheimer: Studia ethnomusicologica eurasiatica (1964, 2/1991); J. Ling: Nykelharpan-Studier i ett folkligt musikinstrument, and abridged: The keyed Fiddle, Studies on a Folk Instrument (both 1967); Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis, 1- (1969- ); E. Emsheimer: "Musikmuseets instrumentsamlingar" in Särtryck ur Minnesskrift vid Kungl. Musikaliska Akademiens 200 årsjubileum (1971); C. Karp: "Baroque Woodwinds in the Musikhistoriska Museet" in GSJ, 25 (1972); From Bone Pipe and Cattle Horn to Fiddle and Psaltery [exh. cat.] (1972); C. Lund, G. Larsson: Klans i flinta och brons/The Sound of Archaeology (1974); B. Kjellström: Dragspel: om kett kaert och misskaent instrument i samarbete med Musikmuseet, Stockholm (1976); B. Kjellström: "Musikmuseet, Stockholm" in CIMCIM Newsletter, [special issue] (1986); B. Kjellström: Traelat. Svenska folkinstrument [Catalogue of the collections of Swedish Folk Musical Instruments] (1990); H. Albertson: Ahlberg & Ohlsson: En fabrik för blechblåsinstrument i Stockholm 1850-1959 (1990); P.U. Allmo: Saeckpipan i Norden. Fran aenglars musik till Djaevulens blasbaelg (Bagpipes in the Nordic countries) (1990); H. Albertson: Klavier [cat.] (1992); H. Svensson: Den Svenska lutan (The Swedish Lute, catalogue) (1992)
--. Stiftelsen Musikkulturens främjande. 550 European and non-European including Rudolf Nydahl collection. G. Grahn: A Complete List of Keyboard Instruments in Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande (Rudolf Nydahl Collection) in Stockholm [typescript] (1988); G. Bizet: Letters in the Nydahl Collection (1988)
--. [Toy museum], Mariatorget 1C. Lindwall Family Collection: 400 diverse mechanical
UPPSALA. Upplandsmuseet. Ca. 50: half Swedish art, half Uppland regional traditional
VÄNERSBORG. Älvsborgs länsmuseum. Ca. 50 European art and traditional
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l'AUBERSON. Musée Baud S.A. Ca. 50 mechanical
W. Brandt: "Zur Geschichte der Musikdose und Ihrerheimat Sainte-Croix" in Prometal, 92 (1963); P. Hugger: "Sainte-Croix und seine Musikdosen" in Korrespondenzblatt der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, 60/3 (1970); Au temps de boîtes à musique d'Alfred Chapuis et Frédy Baud: Historique de la boîte à musique et de la musique mécanique [n.d.]; F. Baud: Museum alter mechanisches Musikinstrumente Gebrüder Baud, L'Auberson (1972)
BASEL. Historisches Museum Basel, Musikinstrumentensammlung. Ca. 1950 European art, traditional, and some non-European including the Otto Lobeck (violin-builder) Albert Riemeyer, and Wilhelm Bernoulli (brass) collections
K. Nef: Historisches Museum Basel, Katalog Nr. 4: Musikinstrumente (1906); J. Hiestand-Schnellmann: "Die Bernoullische Blasinstrumentensammlung im Schloss Griefensee" in Glareana, 1/6 (1952); W. Nef: "Das neue Musikinstrumenten-Museum" in Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, 90. Jahresbericht (1956/57); W. Nef: "Ein eingenartige Sammlung von Musikinstrumenten" in Basler Nachrichten, 503 (1964); W. Bernoulli: "Meine Sammlung der historisches Blechblasinstrumenten und Trommeln" in Brass Bulletin, 5/6 (1973); W. Nef: Alte Musikinstrumenten in Basel (1974); W. Nef: "Die Basler Musikinstrumentensammlung" in Paul Sacher: Alte und neue Musik II. 50 Jahre Basler Kammerorchester 1926-1976 (1977); V. Gutmann: Mit Pauken und Trompeten. Ausstellung ausgewählter Instrumenten aus der Sammlung historischer Blechblasinstrumenten und Trommeln von Dr. H.C. Wilhelm Bernoulli (1982); V. Gutmann: Trommeln und Tambourmajorstöcke in der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumenten des Historisches Museum Basel (1983); W. Nef: "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung Otto Lobeck" in Alte Musik I--Praxis und Reflexion. Sonderband der Reihe Basler Jahrbuch für Historisches Musikpraxis zum 50. Jubiläum der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (1983); A. Küng: "Schlegel a Bale" in Baseler Jahrbuch für Historisches Musikpraxis, 11 (1987); J.H. van der Meer: "Gestrichene Saitenklaviere" in Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis, 13 (1989); V. Gutmann: "Katalog der Kleinorgeln" in Historisches Museum Basel, Jahresbericht 1992 (1993); "Die Bestände der Musikinstrumentensammlung des Historischen Museums Basel", M. Kirnbauer: "Die Rohrblattinstrumente...", "Verzeichnisse der Rohrblattinstrumente", G. Heyder: "Die Tischzihern...", "Verzeichnis der Tischzithern" all in Historisches Museum Basel, Jahresbericht 1994 (1994); M. Kirnbauer: "Verzeichniss in der Musikinstrumentensammlung des Historisches Museums Basel", G. Heyder: "Verzeichniss Die Tischzithern", V. Gutmann: "Ein Clavichord aus Magdenau in der Musikinstrumentensammlung des Historisches Museum Basel", V. Gutmann: "Die Beständ der Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung, II. Tangentenklaviere" all in Festschrift Kloster Magdenau 1244-1994 (1994); V. Gutmann: "Die besaiteten Tasteninstrumente", B.Frei-Heitz, D. Schneller: "I. Hammerklaviere", [both] in Historisches Museums Basel. Jahresbericht (1996); V. Gutmann: Historisches Museum Basel: Führer durch die Sammlung (1996); S. Klaus: "Die Streichinstrumente in der Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung, Historische Museum Basel" Jahrsbericht 1997; S. Klaus: "Trompetten und Posaunen in der Musikinstrumenten Museum-Sammlung des historischen Museums Basel" in Historische Museum Basel Jahrsbericht 1998
--. Museum für Völkerkunde und Schweiz. Ca. 2000 European traditional and non-European
E. Schlager: "Vom Arbeitsrhythmus zur Musik in Bali" in Basler Beitrage zur Geographie und Ethnologie, Ethnologisches Reihe, 2, Festschrift Alfred Bühler (1965); U. Ramseyer: Klangzauber. Funktionen aussereuropaisches Musikinstrumenten (1969)
--. Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Basel. Ca.&nsbp;150 Southeast Asian
BERNE. Bernisches Historisches Museum. Ca. 500 European traditional mainly Bernese, Middle Eastern, African, Asian, and South American
W. Altenburg: "Ale Musikinstrumente in dem Bernischen Historisches Museum" in 8 ZI (1897/98); E. Rohrer: "Eine Tanztrommel der Goldküste" in Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historisches Museums (1945); C. von Graffenried: "Eine Röhrenzither aus Madagaskar" in Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historisches Museums (1965/66); M. Staehelin: "Der sogenannte Musettenbass: Forschungen zur schweizerischen Instrumenten und Musikgeschichten des apäten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts" in Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historisches Museums (1969/70); B. Geiser: "Die Musikinstrumente des Historischen Museums Berne" in Glareana, 19/3-4 (1970); O.Adelmann: "Unsignierte Instrumente des Schweizer Geigenbauers Hans Krouchdaler" in Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung 1969 (1970); B. Geiser: "Die Musikinstrumenten des Historsches Museus Bern" in Glareana, 19/3-4 (1970); P. Centlivres: "Les Instruments de musique de Perse et d'Afghanistan" in Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historisches Museums, 51-52 (1971/72); D. Perret: "Instruments de musique--Chine et Japon. Catalogue" in Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historisches Museums, 55-58 (1975-78); H.R. Hösli: "Bericht über die Restauration einer Bratsche von hanss korouchdaler (1699), Bernisches Historisches Museum" in Das Musikinstrument, 7 (1986); B. Bachmann-Geiser: [Katalog] (1999)
BINNINGEN near Basel. Joseph Bopp collection. Ca. 100 mostly European art
BRIENZ near Bern. Kantonale, Geigenbauschule. Ca. 150 Swiss-made violins.
BURGDORF. Schlossmuseum Burgdorf. Ca. 60 European art and traditional, Swiss provenance.
E. Leutenegger: "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung im Schloss Burgdorf" in Jahresbericht 1955 des Rittersaalvereins Burgdorf (1955); E. Leutenegger: "Alte Musikinstrumente aus Emmental" in Hochwachter, 11 (1955); E. Leutenegger: "Die Musikinstrumentensamlung in Schloss Burgdorf" in Burgdorf Jahrbuch, 23 (1956); J. Hiestand-Schnellmann: "Das Musikzimmer im Schloss Burgdorf" in Glareana, 9/4 (1960); Musik in Schweiz 1685-1985: Instruments de musique de Suisse 1685-1985 (1985)
--. Schweizerisches Zentrum für Volkskultur, Kornhaus Burgdorf. Ca. 450 Swiss traditional including mechanical, and phonographs.
B. Bachmann-Geiser: Kornhaus Burgdorf im Käfigturm: Ein schweizerisches Kulturzentrum in Aufbau [exh. cat.] (1990)
CHEXBRES near Lausanne. Asteuropäische Hirteninstrumente, Marcel Cellier collection. Ca. 100 Eastern European, especially Balkan, pastoral woodwind.
CHUR. Rätisches Museum. Ca. 130 European art and sounding objects
F. Jakob: Die Baldachin-Orgel von Jenaz heute im Rätischen Museum in Chur (1987)
EBNAT-KAPPEL. Heimatmuseum der Albert Edelmann-Stiftung. Ca. 40 European art, traditional, and ca. 50 Toggenburger Halszithern, all with Swiss provenance.
J. Hiestand-Schnellmann: "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung von Albert Edelmann" in 12, no. 3-4, Glareana, 12/3-4 (1963)
EINSIEDELN. Kloster Einsiedeln, Hillel String Collection. 19th-c. bowed strings made in Mirecourt, Vogtland, and Tirol
FRAUENFELD. Museum des Kantons Thurgau.
M.A. Girard: "Musik im Schloss Frauenfeld" in Mitteilungen aus dem Thurgauischen Museum, 18 (1967)
GENÈVE. Musée d'art et d'histoire. Ca. 250 European
H. Kling: "La Collection des anciens instruments de musique au Musée d'art et d'histoire" in Schweiz Zeitschrift für Instrumentalmusik, 2 (1913); K. Nef: "Instruments de musique anciens: a propos d'une visite au Musée d'art et d'histoire" in Musique et instruments, 12 (1925); R. Chavannes: "Catalogue descriptif des instruments de musique à cordes frottées ou pincées du Musée" in Geneva, 9 (1931)
--. Musée d'ethnographie. Ca. 2500 European, African, Asian, Australian, Oceanian, and American
G. Montandon: La Genéalogie des instruments de musique et les cycles de civilisation: étude suivie de catalogue raisonné des instruments de musique du Musée ethnographique de Genève (1919); C. Brailoiu: "Les Archives internationales de Musique populaire" in Archives suisses d'anthroplogie générale (1947); Bela Bartok: "Pourquoi et comment recueille-t-on la musique populaire" in Archives internationales de musique populaire (1948); M. Lobsiger-Dellenbach: Népal: catalogue de la collection d'ethnographie (1954); L. Aubert: "Sur deux luths marocains" in Musées de Genève, 150 (1974); "Un instrument de musique indien: le sarod" in Musées de Genève, 184 (1978); "Les artisans de la parole: notes sur les griots d'Afrique occidentale" in Musées de Genève, 195 (1989); "La quête de l'intemporel: Constantin Brailoiu et les Archives internationales de musique populaire in Bulletin du Musée d'ethnographie (1985); "La vièle-cheval et le luth-singe: regards sur les musiques d'Asie centrale" in Bulletin du Musée d'ethnographie (1986); "Les musiciens dans la société newar" in Bulletin du Musée d'ethnographie (1988); L. Aubert: Pianeta musicale: strumenti musicali dei cinque continenti (1991); F. Borel et al: Pom, pom, pom: musiques etcetra (1997)
--. Musée d'instruments a nciens de m usique de la ville de Genève. Ca. 365 European art including the Fritz and Joachim Ernst collection
Trésors musicaux des collections suisses: expositions au Château de Nyon [exh. cat.] (1949); J. Gramm: "Une visite à la collection d'instruments anciens de M. Fritz Ernst" in Glareana, 3/3 (1954); J. Haldenwang: "Le Musée d'instruments anciens de musique" in Musées de Genève, 4/33 (1963); A. Boresel: "Das klingende Museum aus Genf" in Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift, 20 (1966); E.I. Clerc: Musée d'instruments anciens de musique (1973); Musée d'Instruments Anciens de Musique [n.d.]
Le LOCLE. Musée d'horologerie. Mechanical including Maurice Sandoz collection
LICHTENSTEIG. Fredýs Mechanisches Musikmuseum. Mechanical
LUSTMÜLE. Rolf H.A. Habisreitinger collection. Ca. 20 important Italian bowed strings
LUZERN. Handharmonikamuseum Utenberg.
LUZERN-TRIBSCHEN. Richard Wagner Museum, Städtische Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente.
Ca. 300 European art, traditional, and non-European including the Heinrich Schumacher collection
H. Schumacher: Katalog zu der Ausstellung von Musikinstrumente früherer Zeiten (1888); R. Vannes: Katalog der städtische Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im Richard Wagner Museum Tribschen (1956)
NEUCHÂTEL. Musée d'ethnographie. 1200 non-European, mostly African including the G. and R. Bardout (Paris) collection
Z. Estreicher: "La musique des Esquimaux Cariboü in Bulletin de la Société Neuchâtel de géographique (1948); Z. Estreicher: "Chants et rythmes de la danse d'hommes Bororö recorded by Henry Brandt Bulletin de la Société Neuchâtel de géographique (1954/55); Z. Estreicher: "Collection Gaston Bardout" in Rapport annuel des bibliothèques et musées de la ville de Neuchatel (1954), and in Glareana, 7/2 (1958); Musique et Sociétés [exh. cat.] (1977); F. Borel: Les sanza (1986)
RHEINFELDEN. Fricktaler Museum. Ca. 25 winds, 17th-19th c.
RIVAZ. Christiane Jaccottet collection. Ca. 20 keyboards
ROCHE. Musée Suisse de l'orgue. Ca. 80 organs, incl. reed, and parts
H.J. Modry: "New Organ Museum Opens in Roche"AMIS Newsletter, 14/1 (1985); Catalogue de l'exposition partielle de la collection (1986)
SAINT GALLEN. Historisches Musem. Ca. 50 European art and traditional, Asian, and African
W. Nef: "Inventar" [typescript] [n.d.]
SEEWEN, Solothurn. Schweizerisches Musikautomaten Museum. Mechanical, including the Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher collection. This museum is now part of Schweizerischen Landesmuseums, Zürich
H. Weiss-Stauffacher: "Die Welte-Philharmonic Orgel der Sammlung H. Weiss-Stauffacher" in Seewen Sol. Schweiz (1970); "Vrezeichnis der mechaniches Musikinstrumenten in der Sammlung H. Weiss-Stauffacher, Seewen, So." in Glareana, 20/3-4 (1971); H. Weiss-Stauffacher, R. Bruhin: Mechanisches Musikinstrumenten und Musikautomaen. Beschreibender Katalog der Seewener Privatsammlung (1975, r1976); R. Zweifel, H. Weiss-Stauffacher, T. Bürgi: Musikautomaten Museum Seewen (1993)
STEFFISBURG. Heinrich Brechbühl collection. Ca. 300 mechanical
H. Brechbühl: "Heinrich Brechbühl's Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments, Steffisburg" in CIMCIM Newsletter, 7 (1979)
UTZENSTORF. Schloss Landshut. Hunting
G. Boesch: Die Jagdwaffensammlung Dr. René La Roche, Basel (1964)
WÄDENSWIL. Music of Man Archive. Ca. 420 European, African, Asian, Oceanian, and Native North American
WINTERTHUR. Walter M. Meier collection. Ca. 10 glass including glass armonicas, sets of musical glasses, glass trumpet
ZIMMERWALD near Bern. Karl Burri collection. Ca. 600 winds
ZOLLIKON. Karl Mangold collection. Ca. 140 winds and organs
J. Hiestand-Schnellmann: "Ausstellung alter Musikinstrumenten in Zollikon (Sammlung Mangold)" in Glareana, 13/3-4 (1964)
ZÜRICH. Museum Bellerive (decorative arts museum). Ca. 250 European art, traditional, some non-Western including the Firma Hug & Ciés Musikhistorische Museum.
A.-E. Cherbuliez: Die europäisches Musikinstrumente Wegleitung, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zürich (1962); J. Hiestand-Schnellmann: "Die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im Kunstgewerbemuseum" in Glareana, 15/3-4 (1966); J. Hiestand-Schnellmann: "Die Ausstellung alter Musikinstrumente im neugestalteten Vestibül der Tonhalle Zürich" in Glareana, 26/3-4 (1977)
--. Museum Rietberg. Non-Western art and ethnological
--. Schweizerisches Landesmuseum. Ca. 400 European and Swiss traditional
H. Schumacher: Bericht über die i Schweizerisches Landesmuseum befindlichen Musikinstrumenten (1905); B. Geiser: Die Zither der Schweiz [exh. cat.] (1974); Musikinstrumenten der Schweiz, 1685-1985 [exh. cat.] (1985)
--. Völkerkundemuseum, Universität Zürich. Ca. 600 non-European, many African
M. Szalay: Das Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, eine Ubersicht (1972)
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ZANZIBAR. Sankt Ottilien Missionary Station. Ca. 115 African and Southeast Asian
E. Tremmel: "Die Sammlung afrikanischer Musikinstrumente in Missionsmuseum Sankt Ottilien" in Augsburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 3 (1986)
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CARTHAGE. HANNIBAL Centre des arts et traditions populaires, Fonds d'instruments de musique. Ca. 40
TUNIS. Musée du conservatoire. Ca. 30 African and Asian
--. Musée National du Bardo. Tunisian strings and percussion
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ISTANBUL. Askeri Müze (Military Museum)
--. Topkapi Saray Müzesi. Harem section Sultanahonet. Ca. 65 Turkish
KONYA. Müzesi Müdürlüzü. Ca. 65 Central Asian
Müze: Kültür Bakanligvi: Anitlar ve Müzeler Genel Müdürlügvü. Konya Müze Müdürlügvü (1993)
--. Konya Museum: Mevla-na. Ca. 50 Dervish
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K.P. Wachsmann: The Uganda Museum: Report for the Years 1950-51 (1952); K.M. Trowell, K.P. Wachsmann: Tribal Crafts of Uganda (1953)
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LVOV Historical Museum. Ca. 100 art and traditional
G.D. Yashtchenko: Catalogue of the Musical instruments of the Lvov Historical Museum [n.d.]
NOVGOROD. Kulturhistorisches Museum, Kremlin. Medieval
D. Popl/awska: "String Instruments in Medieval Russia" in RIdIM Newsletter, 21/2 (1996)
Former USSR: see Estonia, Georgia, Kirghizia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Tadjikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
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TASHKENT. Applied Arts Museum of Uzbekistan. Ca. 80 important Uzbeg
--. Art Museum of Uzbekistan. Ca. 110: some 85 Usbeg traditional including by Usto Zupharov, and ca. 25 Indian
--. Historical Museum of Uzbekistan. Ca. 65 Usbeg and manufacturing tools
--. Scientific Experimental Laboratory for the Sphere of Research, Reconstruction and Improvement of the Musical Instruments by the State Conservatory 'M. Ashrafí. Ca. 700 reconstructions of traditional Uzbeg and other Central Asian cultures
A.I. Petrosyants: Instrumentovedenie [Organology] (1951, 2/1980)
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--. Museo Romantico
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--. Museo Organologico, Instituto Interamericano de Etnomusicologia. 700 ethnological, mainly winds and percussion including the Aretz -Ramón, and Rivera collections
Instituto Interamericano de Etnomusicología y Folklore. Cuatro mil años de música en Ecuador (1976); I. Aretz: Instrumentos musicales para una orquesta latinoamericana (1983); I. Girón: "Instrumentos musicales del contexto mágico-religiosö in Catálogo de la Exposición del Primer Congreso Interamericano de Etnomusicología y Folklore (1983); M.T. Melfi, I. Girón: Instrumentos musicales de América Latina y El Caribe, 4 v. (1988)
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KINSHASA. Institut des Musée Nationaux du Zaïre. Ca. 2200 traditional
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A.M. Jones: "African Music in Northern Rhodesia and some other places" in Occasional Papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, (1974); A.A. Mensah: Music and Dance in Zambia (1971)
MBALA. Motomoto museum. Over 140 Northern and Central Zambian (Bemba, Bisa, Lala, Mambwe and Inamwanga peoples) including Father Jean-Jacques Corbeil collection
J.J. Corbeil, W.F.: "African Music: Bemba Instruments" [internal pamphlet, n.d.]
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C. Jones: Making Music: Musical Instruments of Zimbabwe Past and Present (1992)
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