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Welcome to the Musical Instruments WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Musical Instruments.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• Standardize the appearance and layout of musical instrument related articles.
• Improve and generally guide the development of musical instrument related articles.

Scope

• Any article relating to musical instruments.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Open tasks 3 Participants 4 Members 5 Honoured Guests 6 Articles 6.1 Featured content 6.1.1 Candidates 6.1.2 Former featured articles 6.2 Good articles 6.3 Former Good articles 6.4 New articles 6.5 Collaboration and review 7 Templates 8 Userboxes 9 Lists 10 Categories 11 Resources 11.1 Related WikiProjects 11.2 Related Portals

[edit] Guidelines

As we have just formed, we will likely be discussing this very matter once we have a workable number of participants. Please see the guideline page for further discussion.

[edit] Open tasks

To-Do List
for the Musical Instruments WikiProject

Project Tasks	Discuss and determine guidelines Discuss and determine template colors and project representative picture
Requests	Create a project template Francis William Galpin James Warren York Bout (musical instrument) - a part of a string instrument Vincent Bach (Vincent bach <notice the lowercase "b"> currently a redirect to →Vincent Bach Corporation) Photographs of musical instruments
Copyedit	Musical instrument
Wikify
Merge	Slit-gong → Slit gong
Verify	Clarinet needs inline citations
Cleanup	refine project user templates, possibly combining four into one
Expand	Organology Musical instrument classification Michael Praetorius Sebastian Virdung Victor-Charles Mahillon Erich von Hornbostel Curt Sachs Martin Agricola List of musical instruments
Disambiguation
Stubs	pick away at all musical instrument stubs (see Category:Musical instrument stubs and Category:Stub-Class musical instruments articles)
Update	put project template on all musical instrument article talk pages, and assess article
NPOV
Infoboxes	see template page discuss and determine required infoboxes (and which already-existing infoboxes to "adopt")
Other	reactivate and maintain Wikipedia:Writing about music
For more tasks and information, see our project talk page!

To do

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add your name to this list of members and honoured guests. There is no minimum or maximum participation level, these two divisions are for you to determine where you believe you would fit best.

It would also help the project if you would indicate any areas of particular interest. This way, if there is an article that may especially interest you, you could be notified of the required assistance.

NOTE: Italicized dates immediately after the username indicates when the name was first added to this list.

[edit] Members

1. Barkjon (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - learning drummer (on drum kit) and guitarist. I love percussion instruments!
2. Basketball110 (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - cello
3. Laser brain (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - Multi-instrumentalist.
4. Meldshal42 (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (2 July 2007): I play the trumpet, and I'm extremely musically entwined.
5. Melodia (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (10 April 2007): I played (Bass) Clarinet, Piano, and other various instruments when younger.
6. TUF-KAT (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (June 17, 2008)
7. Weissmann (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (June 17, 2008)
8. Wikidude57 (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - I play recorder,clarinet and piano
9. Hornplayer2 (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (13 June 2008): I rock your socks on the French horn
10. nrswanson (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (August 15, 2008) : I am a professional opera singer now but a long time woodwind (many kinds) and piano player.
11. Foolestroupe (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (September 30, 2008) : Multi-Instrumentalist and singer.
12. Tennisetviola (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (October 29, 2008) : I am a violist.
13. Patrickmcg (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (December 23, 2008) : BME, MM, I'm an oboist/multi-instrumentalist
14. YelloCello (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) I'm a cellist! (hence username) I'll be doing a lot of stuff pertaining to orchestra around here.
15. KSWarrior8 (talk) 18:00, 6 March 2009 (UTC) I am a learning drummer and pianist
16. Ninehouse (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - musician, music teacher, specifically interested in organology, Hornbostel-Sachs
17. Charlesb1970 (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - professional trumpet player. I am also interested in music theory.
18. Antonio Lopez (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (29 May 2009) Euphonium

[edit] Honoured Guests

1. Andrewa ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 14 April 2007: Drummer and occasional player of many instruments including almost anything with frets. Particularly interested in cymbal articles, and to a lesser degree with drum kit, fretted instrument and electric and electronic equipment articles.
2. Bibliomaniac15 ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 25 January 2007: I play the violin and piano, and am in a string orchestra, so I think I can contribute to those articles.
3. CharlieHuang ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 28 April 2007: Guqin player of the UK. Former admin de facto bona fide, contributor and editor to the guqin articles.
4. Daniel Alan Phillips ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 15 May 2007: I have a bachelor's degree in music, play synths, piano, drums, and a little pedal steel guitar, and sing. In the past, I've written extensively about topics in electronic music for Electronic Musician magazine. I produce and compose, and work for a major synthesizer manufacturer. I'll spend time as it's available.
5. Deborahjay ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 21 April 2007: Willing to copyedit and Wikify translated articles and those written in non-native English.
6. Metalcore424 (talk • contribs • count • logs • email) - (9 April 2007): Percussionist and self-taught theorist, as well as beginner pianist.
7. Rigadoun ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 28 April 2007: I play many different instruments, and have contributed many related to the gamelan. I put myself here as I'm not sure how much time I can devote to the project, but I'm all in favor of improving and systematizing these articles.
8. Strobilus ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 9 April 2007: Mostly interested in percussion instruments.
9. Swellbow ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 17 April 2007: Drummer interested in drums and hammered dulcimers around the world.
10. Theodore Kloba ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 28 April 2007: I play: piano, guitar, bass guitar, Chemnitzer concertina/Bandonion (both of which I also repair), and am learning: Cümbüş, Kanklės, Garmon', drums; I have tagged many of the articles I've contributed to with {{WPMusInst |quality=|importance=}}, and I'd like someone less involved with them to assess quality/importance.
11. Wbchilds ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 23 April 2007: I play the cornet and piano, and in a range of brass and jazz bands and orchestras. I have a strong interest in brass music so I can contribute there!
12. Yvesnimmo ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 13 June 2007: I play violin and piano and could contribute to many pages.
13. SeanMD80 ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 10 January 2008: -- I play piano, clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano sax.
14. MatthewVanitas ^{(talk • contribs • count)} - 5 April 2008: -- I play assorted traditional string instruments (ukulele, dulcimer). Been focusing on adding subsections (or articles if merited) for interesting variants such as reso-ukes, etc.
15. Wiki libs ^{(talk • contribs • count)} I guess I fit here. Was a professional touring sidesman(guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, piano, synths, harmonica, uke, cowbell whatever I got paid most for :-D) from 1978 to 1992.
16. Beggarsbanquet ^{(talk • contribs • count)}- 15 October 2008: I'm a composer so I have a lot of general knowledge about instruments (and I've played in string/full orchestras, symphonic bands and jazz bands), but I'm particularly knowledgeable about the classical strings. Willing to help wherever I can.
17. jclifford1 ^{(talk • contribs • count)}- 1 December 2008:-- Im a cantonese-opera musician. I play erxian,gaohu, yehu, percussion, and a bunch of other Chinese instruments.
18. HexaChord ^{(talk • contribs • count)}- 1 February 2009:-- Playing several instruments to a certain extend.

Membership

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

• List of Caribbean membranophones

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Former featured articles

• Saxophone - delisted December 2006
• Timpani - delisted August 2007
• Guqin - delisted March 2008

[edit] Good articles

• Pipe organ
• Hurdy gurdy

[edit] Former Good articles

• String instrument - delisted September 2006
• Piano - delisted October 2006
• Cello - delisted November 2006

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Musical Instruments-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

• Jirba, a type of bagpipe played in Bahrain.
• Electronic bagpipes
• Resonator ukulele
• SpecDrum
• Steinway Hall
• Zeusaphone
• Guitalele

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

Newsletter

[edit] Templates

Template page (a collection of templates)

• {{asianmusicalinstruments}}
• {{S Filipino instruments}}
• {{Iranian musical instruments}}
• {{Turkish musical instruments}}
• {{Hornbostel-Sachs instruments}}
• {{Instruments}}
  • {{Woodwinds}}
  • {{Brass}}
  • {{String instruments}}
  • {{Percussion}}
• {{Squeezebox}}
• {{Infobox Instrument}}

Project templates

• {{Musical-instrument-stub}}
• {{Catbox WPMusInst}}
• {{WPMusInst}}
• {{User WPMusInst}}

[edit] Userboxes

There are userboxes for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Musical Instruments members. To add the userbox of your choice to your user page, use this template with these options. The full instructions and documentation are on the userbox documentation page.

{{User WPMusInst}}

This user is a member of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

{{User WPMusInst |guest=yes}}

This user is an honoured guest of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

{{User WPMusInst |family=brass}}

This user is a member of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

{{User WPMusInst |family=keyboards}}

This user is a member of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

{{User WPMusInst |family=percussion}}

This user is a member of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

{{User WPMusInst |family=strings}}

This user is a member of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

{{User WPMusInst |family=woodwinds}}

This user is a member of the Musical Instruments WikiProject.

[edit] Lists

• List of musical instruments
  • List of folk music traditions with subpages listing instruments
  • List of Caribbean drums
  • List of archaic musical instruments - this one needs attention
  • List of membranophones
  • Traditional Chinese musical instruments
  • Traditional Japanese musical instruments
  • Traditional Korean musical instruments
  • List of string instruments

• List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number

[edit] Categories

[edit] Resources

• Sachs, Curt (September 10, 2006) (Paperback). The History of Musical Instruments. Dover Publications. pp. 560 pp. ISBN 9780486452654. 
• Wade-Matthews, Max (March 25, 2003) (Paperback). Musical Instruments (Illustrated Encyclopedia). Lorenz Books. pp. 168 pp. ISBN 9780754811824. 
• Baines, Anthony (October 29, 1992) (Hardcover). The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 416 pp. ISBN 9780193113341. 

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