Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments
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
Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments/to do
Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- Akuyume (talk · contribs) (Tubist, trombonist, and almost a pianist. A general lover of music and musical instruments)
- NDCompuGeek (talk · contribs) (Music Ed college major, musicologist by trade (soon))
- Fang Aili (talk · contribs) - I play piano, mess around with recorder, guitar, and clarinet, among others.
- Freddythehat (talk · contribs) - Jazz Pianist, DrumCircle facilitator, all things percussive interest me.
- Madder (talk · contribs)
- Mdcollins1984 (talk · contribs) - pianist and organist, keyboard interest, but strings and general help and advice available.
- Kntrabssi (talk · contribs) - Double bassist, keyboardist, cellist, all around music nerd!!
- Metalcore424 (talk · contribs) - Percussionist and self-taught theorist, as well as beginner pianist.
- Melodia (talk · contribs) - I played (Bass) Clarinet, Piano, and other various instruments when younger.
- Bunch-a-Munch (talk · contribs) - I'm very interested in instruments and I am learning the guitar (and NDCompuGeek is my dad!)
Guestbook
If you are sympathetic to the cause, but cannot devote the time to help frequently, please sign here:
- bibliomaniac15 (talk · contribs) - I play the violin and piano, and am in a string orchestra, so I think I can contribute to those articles.
- Stobilus (talk · contribs) - Mostly interested in percussion instruments.
- Andrewa (talk · contribs) - Drummer and occasional player of many instruments including almost anything with frets. Particularly interested in cymbal articles, and to a lesser degree with drum kit, fretted instrument and electric and electronic equipment articles.
Articles
Featured content
Candidates
Former featured articles
Good articles
Former Good articles
- String instrument - delisted September '06
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
Templates
Template page (a collection of templates)
- {{asianmusicalinstruments}}
- {{S Filipino instruments}}
- {{Iranian musical instruments}}
- {{Turkish musical instruments}}
- {{Hornbostel-Sachs instruments}}
- {{Instruments}}
- {{Woodwinds}}
- {{Brass}}
- {{String instruments}}
- {{Percussion}}
- {{Squeezebox}}
- {{Infobox Instrument}}
Project templates
- {{Musical-instrument-stub}}
- {{MusicalInstruments-project}}
- {{MusicalInstrumentsCat-project}}
- {{WPMusInst}}
Userboxes
There are userboxes for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Musical Instruments members. To add the userbox of your choice to your user page, use these userboxes. It will produce your choice (but with a border, and the bold text being a link):
{{User WP Musical Instruments-Brass}}
{{User WP Musical Instruments-Drums}}
{{User WP Musical Instruments-Keyboard}}
{{User WP Musical Instruments-Woodwind}}
Lists
- List of musical instruments
- List of folk music traditions with subpages listing instruments
- List of Caribbean drums
- List of archaic musical instruments - this one needs attention
- List of membranophones
- Traditional Chinese musical instruments
- Traditional Japanese musical instruments
- Traditional Korean musical instruments
- List of string instruments