About Biblical Instruments

Music in the Bible
Brief article by Guy Shaked, a student at Tel Aviv University, on ancient instruments.
http://www.geocities.com/vienna/choir/4792/bible.html

Obtaining Instruments Online

Australian Dulcimer Page
25 Woodgate Street,Farrer ACT 2607, Australia. Makes dulcimers in many traditions including Jewish. Includes information on CD's and books featuring ducimer playing including the "Closet Klezmer". Gillian.Alcock@netspeed.com.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6286 3872 .
http://www.netspeed.com.au/gillian.alcock/

Boaz Accordians
Boaz Accordions "is a full-service accordion shop for the San Francisco Bay Area and the North American West Coast. The store is in Berkeley, California. Email: info@boazaccordions.com . Tel. 510/845-1429. Hours: noon-5pm, Sun.-Thurs., by appointment. Closed Fri-Sat. Mailing address: PO Box 99736, Emeryville CA. 94662-9736 USA."
http://www.boazaccordions.com

House of Harrari
Micah and Shoshanna Harrari manufacture replicas of ancient biblical instruments, a nevel and a kinor, for sale.
http://www.harrariharps.com/

Jozef Jankowski: Tsimbls
Jozef Jankowski.57 Faahs Drive.Orchard Park, NY USA 14127.(716) 675-9794.
joedulcimermaker@aol.com
Information about this tsimbl maker is available through Ari Davidow's klezmershack website. Site includes a photo.
Josh Horowitz, a musicologist based in Europe and specializing in early klezmer instruments: "People often ask where to get good tsimbls in the U.S. and aside from the excellent tsimbls of Kurt Bjorling, Mr. Jankowski is the only professional instrument maker in the US I've come across who makes tunings which are tuned in the traditional "Jewish" (i.e. Witebsk, Belarus/West Ukrainian/Galizian) way. Mr. Jankowski was born in 1922 in Baronovici, Belarus (formerly Poland near Brest-Litovsk) and learned how to make and play tsimbl from his father. Before the war he played tsimbl on Polish radio regularly, with a repertoire which included Polish, Russian and some Jewish tunes. He moved to Florida after the war and has lived there until recently with his lovely wife, who was born in Holland. Just recently, Mr. Jankowski moved to the Buffalo area and has set up shop there to make his very beautiful tsimbls."
http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/vendors/jankowski/jankowski.html

Lark in the Morning
This online shop specializes in hard to find instruments and instructional materials.
http://www.larkinam.com/

Shofar Sounds
Shofar sounds on a commercial site. Pictures of shofarot.
http://biblicalgallery.com/GALLERY/ShofarSounds.htm