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What worldinstruments.org is

worldinstruments.org is an open, illustrated catalogue of the worlds musical instruments. Each entry pulls together identification, classification, country of origin, photographs and audio drawn from open data sources, then layers human-curated long-form articles for the most popular instruments.

Sources & methodology

Catalogue metadata is reconstructed from Wikidata (CC0). Photographs and audio recordings come from Wikimedia Commons, Freesound, the Internet Archive, and YouTube creators publishing under Creative Commons. We use only material whose license permits commercial use, preserve the original authors attribution, and respect share-alike requirements. The full per-item attribution list is available on the Credits & Attributions page.

Contact

Spot a missing credit, broken link, or instrument that should be added? Reach us at our contact page.