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Fret Dancer: Fretdancer Guitar museum features an array of vintage acoustic guitars. Many of these are extremely rare guitars that the great Blues Legends played, prior to playing Gibsons and Martins. With over 100 items in their collection this is a must see museum for the guitar enthusiast.Website: Fret Dancer

Lord Bizarre's Electric Guitar and Amp Museum: "lordbizarre's electric guitar & amp museum" is located in Leuven, Belgium and carrries a collection of electric guitars and amps from all over the world. Their impressive collection contains 351 electric guitars & 50 amp's and is growing daily.Website: Lord Bizarre's Electric Guitar and Amp Museum

Gibson Guitar Museum: Guitar Museums Online Series Presents The History of the Gibson Guitar. This online museum contains photos and narration which are educational as well as entertaining.Website: Gibson Guitar Museum

Timeline of Art History the Met Museum: The Timeline of Art History contains a vast storehouse of guitars from many regions of the world with an emphasis on the Baroque period.The collection lends to educating the novice about the history of the guitar and allows the guitar aficionado the pleasure of viewing some of the most spectacular pieces of plucked string instruments ever made.Website: Timeline of Art History the Met Museum

TheMomi.org Museum of Musical Instruments:

The Museum of Musical Instruments proudly welcomes you to experience its many exhibitions of the guitar.In these exhibitions you will find images which capture the detailed beauty and design of the stringed instrument.They are proud to host the exhibit ,"The Guitar Is Art: Rhythms of Art & Design In The 20th Century" This exhibition was produced in collaboration with The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, and explores the historical and aesthetic relationship between traditional visual art and the guitar. Included in this exhibition is an interactive Photo Montage of over 100 of the most gorgeous guitar photos in the world.

The MoMI also has the world's first virtual documentary exhibition devoted to Woody Guthrie, one of America's most-loved folk heros!

Website: TheMomi.org Museum of Musical Instruments

Burns Guitar Museum: Burns Guitar Museum offers an extensive collection of guitar history, education, and guitar aesthetics.Website: Burns Guitar Museum

The Carvin Guitar Museum: The Carvin Musical Instrument Museum offers an all inclusive history of Carvin Musical Instruments, including guitars and basses, mandolins, steel guitars and other items .They feature an in stock archive which displays several hundred guitars and basses and a very interesting ebay section which showcases interesting guitars spotted on ebay. Website: The Carvin Guitar Museum

Flying V Collection: Guitar Collection is a website which allows a different collector every month to feature their Flying V collection.Website: Flying V Collection

Bernie Marsdens' Guitar Collection: Bernie Marsden has an impressive collection of guitars which can be viewede on line or the cd rom is available for purchase .His collection includes vintage guitars as well as modern instant classics.This is a collection that shouldn't be missed.Website: Bernie Marsdens' Guitar Collection

Phil Brodie's Guitar Collection: Phil Brodie has an enticing collection of guitars which over the last fourty years have given him and many others so much joy. He invites all music lovers to come experience the excitement of viewing such a wonderful colllection. Check out his interview in "Guitar and Bass" magazine , March 2007 issue Vol 18- No. 2Website: Phil Brodie's Guitar Collection

Mike's Guitar Collection: Mike's Guitar Collection contains Les Paul, Paul Reed, Fender, and Gretsch to name a few.
This collection is pure eye candy!Website: Mike's Guitar Collection

Butch Moore's Grammer Guitar Collection: Butch Moore's Grammer Guitar Collection contains 5 Grammers ,a strat Siverstones, fiddles and an autoharp .There are many other items added or rotated on this site Website: Butch Moore's Grammer Guitar Collection

Hofner Guitar Miscellany: Steve Russels collection features vintage Hofner guitars.The collection has plenty of photos of old Hofner guitars from the 50's and 60's, together with sections on Selmer, Watkins/WEM, Bird, Fenton-Weill, Grampion, Dallas, and Elpico AmWebsite: Hofner Guitar Miscellany

Rob Wesley's Guitar Page: Rob Wesley Guitar collection features many photos of his personal guitars-- whether for playing or for repair-projects.
Some of the guitars in his collection are available for purchase.Website: Rob Wesley's Guitar Page

Early Romantic Guitar: EarlyRomanticGuitar.com web site was created out of a desire to find good organized information about the period guitar practices, composers, and instruments of the early 19th century, known also as the Early Romantic Guitar era. The goal of this site is to have a central web site that brings together diverse and widespread information into one place. It is an educational overview of the early romantic 19th century guitar: the period composers and instruments, and the artists who specialize in that time period and style today. The target audience is the guitarist who wants to learn more about this genre, but does not have much information or access to instruments - perhaps being exposed to it for the first time. Website: Early Romantic Guitar

Ronnie Rogers Guitar Collection: Ronnie Rogers Guitar Collection had an interesting start when he recived his first guitar in Jackson, Mississipi in 1979. His photo collection contains everything from Electra to Ibanez. He shares not only his gutairs in this collection but also a bit of his life as well.Website: Ronnie Rogers Guitar Collection

Kosaku's World: Kos' Guitar Collection contains many beautiful Ibanez in the expansive guitar collection. There is also a smaller collection of non Ibanez guitars.Website: Kosaku's World

My Vintage Guitars: Dann Dunn is an avid photographer and has take some wonderful photos of his vintage and custom guitars. They are available for viewing in his online collection. From a 1919 Martin to an 1994 WEs Brandt, his collection spans nearly 75 years.Website: My Vintage Guitars

Vintage Instrument Museum: Players Vintage Instruments would like to welcome you to view their personal collection of Vintage Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos, and other instruments . Martin, Gibson, Epiphone, Fender, and Vega are a few of the names included in this collection. Some items in collection are available for purchase. Website: Vintage Instrument Museum

National Music Museum: The National Music Museum renowned collections, which include more than 13,500 American, European, and non-Western instruments from all cultures and historical periods, are the most inclusive anywhere. They include many of the earliest, best preserved, and historically most important instruments known to survive. Website: National Music Museum

The mandolin Collection: The Mandolin Collection contains photos of an many intersting mandolins spanning many time periods. The photos are for reference and interest but not for sale . Have fun viewing this exquisite collection!Website: The mandolin Collection

The Mandolin Archive: The Mandolin Archive is the brain child of Dan Beimborn
Originally this archive was going to be just a guide to the old Gibson mandolins, but so much enthusiasm from viewers to expand the site has transformed it into a wonderful collection of stringed instruments with contributions from collectors all over the world. Check out the Mandolin Cafe while you're there.Website: The Mandolin Archive

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Bill's Banjos: The Bill's Banjos website is dedicated to photos and descriptions of the many banjos in his collection, along with a few other vintage instruments. The author hopes that other collectors might follow suit and share photos and information on their banjos with others in the collecting community. The collection spans the period from the 1860’s to the 1920’s. Banjos are listed alphabetically by manufacturer or brand name.Website: Bill's Banjos

Gibson Banjos Catalog Discription: Gibson Banjos Catalog Description is the brain child of Tom Biggs .This series of catalog descriptions was inspired by two events. The first was his general lack of knowledge about some of the simpler styles of Gibson banjos such as the Style 0 and Style 1. The second was a request for information on Gibson Style 100 banjos. While the Style 100 are not prewar instruments, this request and the search for information on this request, led him to begin work on this series of pages. The first installment of this series addresses the early instruments made in 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1927. Website: Gibson Banjos Catalog Discription

Ukecat Ukulele Museum: Ukecat Ukulele Museum has over 20 ukuleles by such names as Martin, Kamaka,and many others. Website: Ukecat Ukulele Museum

Mandolin Museum: Alan Bond's museum is made up of pictures he has collected of mandolins and related instruments. Enjoy an F-hole Mandolin museum, Lyoyd Loar F-5 Master Mandolin and many others on this site.Website: Mandolin Museum

Notecannons (National Steel Guitar): NoteCannons present a pictorial history of the National brand name, dating from the 1920s through to the present day.Paul Wheldon supplied many of the pictures on this site. Enjoy looking at these wonderful instruments!Website: Notecannons (National Steel Guitar)

Sterner Capo Museum: The Sterner Capo Museum has 226 capos - old and new. There is even one capo designed by Sterner personally.Website: Sterner Capo Museum

Alroys Amazing Out-of-Control Guitar Collection: Alroys Amazing Out-Of-Control Guitar collection contains several million musical instruments and continues to grow .His guitar collection includes a Kent electric guitar - Vantage bass guitar - Ibanez Silver Series - Mystery Epiphone - Fender Musicmaster bass - Fender 70s Stratocaster - Gibson Les Paul Studio - Traveler electric guitar - Gibson Les Paul Double Cutaway - Epiphone Sheraton II - Rickenbacker 650S Sierra - Tyler Mountain Bouzouki - Gibson Les Paul SmartWood - Capri Orange Fender Stratocaster - Walnut Fender Stratocaster .Don't miss the chance to view Alroys' impressive collection and wit.Website: Alroys Amazing Out-of-Control Guitar Collection