MakingMusic

David Ahmed: MakingMusic

This is an amazing site. It is a list of 347 different instruments of every form and origin, and in an easy and appealing interface, gives you a photo, brief history, and several second sample of each being played. There are some truly amazing and to me, totally unknown, instruments here... read the history of the Theremin (a very bizarre instrument to be sure) wild stuff...
I have decided that I would like very much to learn to play the mandolin.