Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments

{{short description|Wikimedia subject-area collaboration}}

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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.

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.

Open tasks

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To do

Participants

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments/Membership}}

Membership

Articles

= Featured content =

== Candidates ==

  • None

=Good articles=

==Former Good articles==

= 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.

= Collaboration and review =

; Collaboration of the week

; Peer review

; Assessment

; Newsletter

Templates

Template page (a collection of templates)

=By region=

  • {{tl|Asian musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Music of Asia}}
  • {{tl|Burmese musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Cambodian musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Traditional Chinese musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Indian musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Gamelan}} Indonesia
  • {{tl|Iranian musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Japanese musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Fue}}
  • {{tl|Traditional Laotian musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Traditional musical instruments of Malaysia}}
  • {{tl|Musical instruments of Nepal}}
  • {{tl|Music of the Philippines}}
  • {{tl|S Filipino instruments}}
  • {{tl|Thai musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Turkish musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Vietnamese musical instruments}}
  • {{tl|Arabic musical instruments}}

=Morphology=

  • {{tl|Hornbostel-Sachs instruments}}
  • {{tl|Instruments}}
  • {{tl|Percussion}}
  • {{tl|Plucked idiophones}} (lamellophones)
  • {{tl|Squeezebox}}
  • {{tl|Infobox Instrument}}

Project templates

  • {{tl|Musical-instrument-stub}}
  • {{tl|WPMusInst}}
  • {{tl|User WPMusInst}}

Userboxes

There are userboxes for members, which adds them to :Category:WikiProject Musical Instruments participants. 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}}

: {{User WPMusInst}}

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;{{User WPMusInst |guest=yes}}

: {{User WPMusInst |guest=yes}}

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;{{User WPMusInst |family=brass}}

: {{User WPMusInst |family=brass}}

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;{{User WPMusInst |family=keyboards}}

: {{User WPMusInst |family=keyboards}}

{{clear}}

;{{User WPMusInst |family=percussion}}

: {{User WPMusInst |family=percussion}}

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;{{User WPMusInst |family=strings}}

: {{User WPMusInst |family=strings}}

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;{{User WPMusInst |family=woodwinds}}

: {{User WPMusInst |family=woodwinds}}

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;{{User WPMusInst |family=violin}}

: {{User WPMusInst |family=violin}}

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Lists

Categories

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Musical instruments

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Musical instruments articles by quality

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Musical instruments articles by importance

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References

  • {{cite book | last = Sachs | first = Curt | title = The History of Musical Instruments | type = Paperback | date = September 10, 2006 | publisher = Dover Publications | isbn = 9780486452654 | pages = 560 pp}}
  • {{cite book | last = Wade-Matthews | first = Max | title = Musical Instruments (Illustrated Encyclopedia) | type = Paperback | date = March 25, 2003 | publisher = Lorenz Books | isbn = 9780754811824 | pages = 168 pp}}
  • {{cite book | last = Baines | first = Anthony | title = The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments | type = Hardcover | date = October 29, 1992 | publisher = Oxford University Press, USA | isbn = 978-0-1-9311334-3 | pages = 416 pp}}

= Related WikiProjects =

{{WikiProject Music/Related WikiProjects|state=collapsed}}

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