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Music Making in Yorkshire Violin Sites Guitar Sites Classical Folk Jazz
Environmental Matters concerning Music Political, Social etc... Misc


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Music Making in Yorkshire



Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra
Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra

Huddersfield Choral Society

Square Chapel for the Arts

Orchestra of Square Chapel

Dean Clough Centre

The Source - Leeds Musicians Resource Guide


South Riding Folk Network


Sites on the Violin...

Violin Land

violin@web is a comprehensive information website for the violin

Violin acoustics from the University of New South Wales

Free Violin Sheet Music from 8notes.com

The Strad - the best known magazine on the violin

How to Wreck a Good Fiddle

Bowed Electricity - an information site on electric violin makers and players


Andy Holliman's Electric Strings site

Joel Glassman's 'Amplify your Violin' - a seriously good guide





The Violin Man - Online Violin, Viola and Cello resource and community.


Guitar...


Guitar acoustics from the University of New South Wales


EzFolk.com - Richard Hefner's instructional website for banjo (bluegrass & clawhammer), folk guitar, and ukulele. Hundreds of pages of tablature, tutorials, and more to make your learning experience an enjoyable one. Most songs taught on the site are also freely available as MP3 files recorded by Richard Hefner. Tablature may be viewed on screen and tablature may be downloaded and viewed, played at any speed, or printed using the excellent tablature program, TablEdit, or the free viewer, TabView. Computer generated midi files are also provided on the site, as well as a link directory to over 2000 acoustic music sites (mostly folk & bluegrass).


Classical

www.cadenza.org


Visit Cadenza - resources for classical and contemporary musicians

Music and Vision Magazine - the World's first daily classical music magazine


...others


The Musicians Union

The Musicians Union list of stolen instruments

...to find an instrument teacher...

Environmental - of direct relevance to instrument makers and musicians


Fauna and Flora International
(includes the SoundWood project which seeks to prevent overuse of threatened timbers for musical instrument use)


The Forest Stewardship Council

Political and Social...



Firstly - the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

"Quakers respect the creative power of God in every human being and in the world around us. We work through quiet processes for a world where peaceful means bring about just settlements."


The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Yorkshire CND



Trident Ploughshares is a campaign to disarm the UK Trident nuclear weapons system in a non-violent, open, peaceful and fully accountable manner.









...and my colleague in Birchwood Books (also in the Piece Hall) for an excellent selection of books on British folk