Friendly Links

Visit these sites! The list includes many familiar places, but if you seek out and
linger along the byways, you'll broaden your range of knowledge and insights
in the spirit of The Joy of Cello Playing.

Exhibits of Music & Instruments

JHU: L.Levy Sheet Music Collection (Early American music)
Shrine to Music Museum (Instruments)

String Music Dealers


Shar Products Co. (The premier mail order source)
Mona Lisa Sound (Classic rock string quartet sheet music)

Music & Movement

Alexander Technique & More (Pedro de Alcantara, master classes)
American Orff Schulwerk Association
Dalcroze Society of America
Feldsenkrais Method

Strings: High & Low Society

Association Francaise du Violoncelle
Internet Cello Society
International Society of Bassists
New Directions Cello Association
The Viola Web Site

Friendly Music Outreach

Music for the Love of It
Music Making for Amateurs (COMA)
Amateur Chamber Music Players

Educational & Training Sites

Richard Harris (Educational arrangement & transcription services)
Sring Pedagogy Notebook (Michael Hopkins)

About Cello & Cellists

Claudio Ronco (A most imaginative site)

Tipbook Cello (Basic cello information}
Musical Online:Cello & Bass List

Cellist - Composers - Arrangers

Paul Bazelaire (Cello compositions & transcriptions)
Seymour Barab:(Complete index of cello music)
Alan Shulman (Cello Concerto & other cello music)

Thomas Whitman (Cello compositions)

Bow Makers, Bow Hair Information

Yung Chin(Location and biography
William Salchow (How to select a bow)


Instrument Makers and Dealers

Hans J. Nebel (The most meticulous restorations and repairs)\
Claude Lebet (Violin maker in Rome -restorations and repairs)
Johnson String Instrument (New England's most complete instrument shop)


Musicians' Furniture

Alden Lee Company (Woden music stands, music cabinets)

General Music Resourcs

Classical Net
Sibelius Academy Music Resources
Worldwide Internet Mus Resources (IU Sch of Mus)

Aches & Pains?


New Directions in Cello Playing (Victor Sazer)

Children's Music

Adventures in Violinland (The Shirley Givens children's method)
Children's Music Web


Folk Music

Red Stick Ramblers (Cajun, Western Swing, 20's Jazz)
Balfa Toujours (Cajun)
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason (American)
Fiddler Magazine (Fiddle links)


World Music
About.com:World Music (Megan Romer tells all)

String Family

Gary Karr(Solo doublebassist)

Museums, Galleries, Photo Galleries Online



Cello Heaven Photo & Art Gallery (Photos of cellists)

Rare Books & Autographs of the Violin Family

Montagnana Books (David Sanders)

Unusual Recordings

Leonard Rose ( Sonata Recordings from the1950's' with Hambro)
Feuermann: Rare Recordings 1934 to 1942 (On Cello Classics label)
Music Minus One (Classical Karaoke)



Recreation

GORP(The Great Outdoors Recreation pages)



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