Balkan musical instruments

Sites you might browse to see what's for sale: The House of Musical Traditions in Takoma Park, Maryland Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan Mid-East Mfg., Inc. in West Melbourne, Florida Lark in the Morning in Mendocino, California (don't expect bargains) Rhythm Fusion offers a variety of instruments from around the world, including some Turkish and Middle Eastern (get their last zurna now!) MacedoniaDirect now offers all types of Macedonian village instruments for sale by mail order (I ordered a pair of Gievski tamburas from them and was 100% satisfied with the quality of instruments and the service) Instrument maker Casey Burns has, unfortunately, taken his pioneering GaidaCam (showing a pet goat in its pen) off the Web There's nothing quite like playing conical woodwinds, as you can discover on Brian Sutin's page about the tárogató, a Hungarian instrument resembling a cross between a clarinet and a soprano sax At last! What to grow in your back yard if you want to make your own woodwind reeds My wife, Jody, plays accordion, so I guess I can't sneer at pages like Jeroen Nijhof's mind-boggling Accordion links or Accordiana, a good collection of accordion resources John Valentich tells you where you can buy a tamburica instrument (he makes them, but graciously lists other makers, too) and answers the eternal question How Are Tamburitzas Constructed? A kaval page from Bob Snider, including fingering charts Information about ethnic instruments, from Lark in the Morning Bulgarian folk instruments, including a discussion of Bulgarian bagpipes, by the fabulous Hector Bezanis More important information about bagpipes Tasteless bagpipe jokes -- some people are so insensitive Tamburica Music and the Tamburica Family, an article by Karen White, who bravely confronts the Srijemski vs. Jankovic vs. Farkas controversy over the proper way to tune tamburica instruments (omitting, however, at least one widely used tuning for the bugarija, an open E chord, E-G#-B-E).