Acknowledgments This website was created and is maintained by Margaret Downie Banks, Curator of Musical Instruments. Photographs appearing on this website were taken by the following people (in alphabetical order): Alan G. Bates, Tucker Densley, Jayson Dobney, Valerie Hoeppner, Bernhard von Hünerbein, Sandra L. King, Mark Olencki, Mary Petersen, Deborah Check Reeves, Simon Spicer, Michael Suing, Matthew Tolzmann, and Bill Willroth Sr. Checklists of musical instruments appearing on this website were prepared and updated over the years by the following people (in alphabetical order): Margaret Downie Banks, Michael Cwach, Jayson Dobney, Rodger S. Kelly, Sabine Klaus, Stephanie Kocher, John Koster, Darcy Kuronen, André P. Larson, Jenna Makowski, Belinda Nemec, Mary Oleskiewicz, Lee Raine Randall, Deborah Check Reeves, Sarah Richardson, Arian Sheets, and Michael Suing. Technical diagrams of elements of brass instrument construction appearing on this website were prepared by Sabine Klaus. The Stoelzel valve animation was created by Mark Vickrey. The National Music Museum's Website has been recognized and featured both in electronic media and printed publications. We would like to show our appreciation to the publishers by including information about their publications and websites here. This website has been rated as a SafeSurf website for all ages. The National Music Museum was chosen as one of three "Musicology Museums" to be listed in Internet Field Trips by Gary M. Garfield and Suzanne McDonough (Glenview, Illinois: Good Year Books, 1998), a resource for students in grades 4-8. A total of 57 well-established museums are listed in this new resource, a "part of the 'new' curriculum, combining the best traditional methods of teaching with the contemporary technology of the Internet." It is also featured in Internet Family Fun: the Parent's Guide to Safe Surfing by Bonnie Bruno with Joel Comm (San Francisco: No Starch Press, 1997). The Museum is one of only fifty museums featured in Saul Rubin's book Offbeat Museums (Santa Monica Press, 1997). The National Music Museum and its website were featured in Prairie Magazine in 1998, an electronic journal sponsored by Gateway 2000. The Museum is featured on StudyWeb as "one of the best educational resources on the Web." StudyWeb is one of the Internet's premier sites for educational resources for students and teachers. Another educational website which has selected the National Music Museum for inclusion is the Webivore Knowledge System. This collection is "an index of the best web sites found and reviewed by Webivore's content experts and editors to help students and educators find accurate and useful information on the web." The Museum's website has been chosen for inclusion on "MaMaMedia, THE Place for Kids on the Net." Mamamedia.com gives kids the best of the Net with hundreds of fun activities allowing them to create, play, publish and share, all while building learning and technology skills. National Music Museum The University of South Dakota 414 East Clark Street Vermillion, SD   57069 ©National Music Museum, 1996-2008 Most recent update:  January 10, 2008 You are the 15,716th visitor to this page. The University of South Dakota Return to Top of Page