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| North Alabama Country Dance Society |
| Chattahoochee Country Dance Society |
| Nashville Country Dancers |
| Chattanooga Traditional Dance Society |
| Contra Dancing in the Southeast |
| Sibelius Software | Makers of the music notation software I use |
| CodaBow | Makers of high-quality carbon graphite bows (I own one of their Classic models, and it is the best money I ever spent on a musical instrument) |
| The Violin Shop | Fred Carpenter's music store in Nashville, where I bought my fiddle. Good Guy. |
| Southwest Strings | Good source of strings and other supplies for bowed instruments |
| Adobe Audition | Adobe Audition (formerly CoolEdit) is a very good program for editing sound files |
| FiddleFork Online | A nicely-done website with a lot of things of interest to fiddle players |
| Fiddle-L | An email listserv for fiddle players |
| CoMando | Website and email listserv for mandolin players |
| Mandolin Cafe | Good website for all things mandolinial |
| The String Emporium | The String Emporium, specialists for upright bass. |
| Acoustic Disc Records | Dave Grisman's company, specializing in recordings in the mandolin genre | |
| American Traditions | Rounder Record's website with recordings of true traditional folk music played by real people | |
| Ridge Runner Records | Slim Richey's music company, with records, instructional tapes, good humor, etc. | |
| The Owls | An Atlanta jazz band that two of my best friends play in |
| Levy Sheet Music Collection | American Popular Music from 1780 to 1960. Over 29,000 pieces! |
| 78Man's MySpace Channel | Lots of old 78 RPMs, free for listening. Great, great stuff! |
| Ragtime & Scott Joplin Links Page | Good starting point if you are interested in that sort of music |
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Colin D. MacDonald's Ragtime- March-Waltz Web Site |
Title says it all |
| Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band | 1970's era Australian psychedelic jug/ragtime/blues band |
| National Junk Band | The modern manifestation of the previous band |
| Neil Gladd | Classical mandolinist and composer. A very enjoyable and irreverent site to peruse. |
| Andras Schiff | My favorite classical pianist. Best recordings of Bach. |
| Michala Petri | Fabulous recorder player |
| Classical Midi Archives | HUGE, HUGE collection of classical midi files, well-organized and indexed |
| Icking Music Archive | Great collection of classical music in PDF and MusiXTeX formats |
| Calvin Vollrath | Calvin is, in my not-in-the-least humble estimation, the absolute *best* fiddler on the planet today.
Really. He is. Period. Listen - and learn. |
| John Arcand | Another wonderful Canadian fiddler and tunesmith |
| Urban Legends | Check here if you hear any story about Neimann Marcus cookies, kidney harvesting, etc |
| James Randi | Dedicated debunker of psychics, mystics, and other charlatans |
| The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic | It's hard to tell how serious this site is, and in fact, I think that may be the point. Regardless, I think it's a step in the right direction. Jerry Falwell and Judge Roy Moore will not approve of this site, and it is probably blocked by NetNanny at Bob Jones University |
| Slowpoke Comics, by Jen Sorenen | Just plain funny. Scary funny, maybe. |
| The Skeptics Dictionary | More information for analytical thinkers |
| Words/Dictionaries/etc. | Good general purpose site for language, definitions, anagrams, etc |
| World Wide Words | Great site with definitions and derivations of all sorts of peculiar words, phrases, etc. |
| The Wordplay Website | Anagrams, palindromes, much more. |
| Postmodernism Generator | Funny spoof of high-falutin' social science types |
| Sokal Affair | See hook. See bait. Bite hook. OUCH!!! WAHHHHH! (You can read the summary if this is too much for one sitting) |
| Superstring Theory | Nicely done site about the cutting edge of physics |
| Cambridge Math Thesaurus
and MathWorld |
Fun sites for math geeks |