Southpaw pickers looking for advice or some properly oriented chord diagrams will find kindred spirits at Meguana's Web site for lefties. Go to http://homepages.go.com/~hidari77/leftyguitar.html.

AxReg.com is offering an international guitar registry and notification service with the hopes of deterring guitar theft and increasing the chances of stolen instrument recovery. Get the details online. Sign up at www.AxReg.com.

Fingerstyle jazz guitar wizard Tuck Andress shares his personal tricks of the trade, reveals the mysteries of the fingerboard, and unmasks the marvels of the mind at www.tuckandpatti.com.

Harmony Central is an online clearing house for all kinds of information about instruments and gear, music, and players, featuring loads of links, chat rooms, reviews, and classified music ads. Check it out at www.harmony-central.com.

You can catch live, online performances from the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage every evening at 6 p.m. EST or download highlights from the series for listening at your leisure. Archived concerts include performances by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Del Rey, Stephen Fearing, Tony Hauser, and many others. Get the details at www.kennedy-center.org.

The All Music Guide's online Allmusiczine is chock-full of in-depth interviews, reviews, and news. Read it at www.allmusic.com.

The information superhighway stretches from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago at www.muddywaters.com, where blues fans can read a biography, view concert footage, and parse song lyrics written by the late McKinley Morganfield, known the world around as Muddy Waters.

François Faucher applies cutting-edge technology to the venerable traditions of the classical guitar at his online MIDI site at http://www.info-internet.net/~ffaucher/. The site includes nearly 300 MIDI files representing the works of 78 composers as well as extensive classical guitar history and a nifty virtual museum of ancient instruments.

Jerry Garcia lives on at academic deadhead David Dodd's immense Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics Web site. Replete with enough lyric sheets, essays, footnotes, arcane references, illustrations, and general exegesis to keep even the most dead-icated fans happy, the site resides at http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/.

The Musicians and Instrument Makers Forum will host an interactive, online lutherie course called Building a Small Guitar or Baritone Ukulele, August 30–December 20. Get details, plans, and virtual chisels at www.mimf.com.

Folk Web at www.folkweb.com is an online CD store for independent folk and acoustic artists and labels. Hundreds of artists are represented with biographies, images, links, and several sound samples from each CD.

High-tech meets lo-fi at Off the Record's www.otrvinyl.com, where you can look for rare and out-of-print LPs and 45s. Off the Record purveys all genres of music on vinyl, and the site has a searchable database and secure server.

Take advantage of the Random Bad Bluegrass Band Namer at www.mandolincafe.com. We did, and the A.G. staff string band is now called the Lost Washboard Grasscutters.

Lark in the Morning (www.larkinthemorning.com) is a one-stop, online shopping center for bandurrias, ouds, bouzoukis, didgeridoos, hurdy-gurdies, theremins, and over 6,000 other hard-to-find musical instruments from around the globe. The company's award-winning Web site is chock-full of illustrations, history, and how-to information.

Blues mavens with modems will make the most of the definitive Reverend Gary Davis home page, a reverential tribute to the fingerstyle master, complete with photographs, artwork, discography, audio samples, and memorabilia at www.best.com/~easyed/RGD/.

Looking for a strapping good time? Anders Sterner has an extensive online capo museum at http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86505074/capomuseum.

Fans of Martin Taylor can find out everything they want to know about the English jazz guitar virtuoso at www.martintaylor.com.

Play Guitar is a new online beginning guitar method located at http://members.tripod.com/iplayguitar/

Musical America, the classically oriented "business center for the performing arts" has a new Web site at www.musicalamerica.com that features searchable databases full of resource information on performing artists, managers, and venues.

Rockabilly fans will be interested in the new Grady Martin and Bob Moore Fan Club. To receive the online newsletter, email Tommy Lovelace at tbl@2fords.net or visit the Rockabilly Hall of Fame at www.rockabillyhall.com.

The 24-hour Internet radio show at www.solidgoldbluegrass.com is just what it says. The show's "Guitar Hour" is broadcast twice a day at 8 A.M and 8 P.M. Eastern time.

Immerse yourself in Bob at www.bobdylan.com. The site contains a catalog of officially released Dylan albums and songs and a searchable database of his published lyrics, accompanied by 45-second audio clips from all the official recordings of each song.

Guitar Solo Publications has a new Web site at www.gsp-guitar.com.

Independent recording artists can get big-time online distribution through Amazon.com's new Advantage program. Visit www.amazon.com/advantage/ for more information and an enrollment form.

ChannelSEEK (www.ChannelSEEK.com) is a program guide for streaming media events on the Web, including concerts, music, radio shows, videos, news, movies, and sports programming.

Step right up and see the world's smallest guitar at www.news.cornell.edu/science/July97/guitar.ltb.html. The guitar (made from crystalline silicon) is ten micrometers long (about the size of a human blood cell) with six strings, each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide.

The Gibson Auction, an online resource for buying and selling used instruments of any make, can be found at http://auction.gibson.com/index.html.

A link to the some of the best flamenco sites, courtesy of the Flamenco Society of Seville, Spain, can be found at http://personal.redestb.es/flamenco/.

Looking for the lyrics to a half-remembered song? Try the Digital Tradition Folksong Database at www.mudcat.org/folksearch.html, or the International Lyrics Server at www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm.

Ceolas (www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html) contains a wealth of information on Celtic music and hundreds of links to other Celtic music sites.

"Words on Music" is a weekly Internet interview and performance program presented by Songwriter's Monthly and broadcast live at www.mediabureau.com every Wednesday at 10 P.M. EST.

Guitar Notes (www.guitarnotes.com) now has an updated guitar tablature search engine that indexes guitar music from all over the Internet.

A database of stolen instruments, designed to help music shop owners determine whether a used instrument is stolen, is located at www.empire.net/~wozmak/thelist.html.

Nut Chords is a freeware chord finder for Windows 95 and 98 that can be found at www.angelfire.com/nc/nutchords.

Hot Club Records is looking for help in creating the International Gypsy Jazz Archive at www.nordi.no/music/hcr/.

Blues fans will enjoy the Blue Flame Café's biographical encyclopedia of blues singers and players at www.blueflamecafe.com.

Sheet Music Plus at www.musicianstore.com/store/Sheetmusicstore.tmpl has a searchable database of over 220,000 titles.

Shareware Music Machine at www.hitsquad.com/smm/ has over 1,200 freeware and shareware music software programs.

Eliot Fisk's new Web site is up and running at www.eliotfisk.com.

National Reso-Phonic Guitars has a new Web site at www.nationalguitars.com that includes a comprehensive history and a drawing for a steel-body, single-resonator Delphi guitar.

The King Pup Radio Hour, hosted by Phil and Gaye Johnson and featuring old-time country and bluegrass, is online at www.radioyur.com.

Independent artists can market their music on the Web at www.cdalley.com, an online CD store specializing in unsigned musicians.

The Songwriter's Notebook at www.songbook.net has many helpful songwriting resources.

The Musicians and Instrument Makers Forum (www.mimf.com) is a discussion forum for musical instrument builders.

The Folkie's Dictionary is located at www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/.

The free Guitar Chord Finder software available at http://leden.tref.nl/~cdvisser/ allows you to view chords from a left-handed player's perspective.

Gryphon Stringed Instruments' repairman Frank Ford has a great site at www.frets.com with tons of tips and advice for luthiers, repairers, and guitarists, including a photographic demonstration of the correct way to string a guitar.

Ever invent or stumble upon a cool new tuning but then get bogged down figuring out where all the chords are? An ingenious, interactive, open-tunings chord guide is at http://users.plinet.com/~bquade/AlternateTuning102.html.

Fans of mondegreens (for example, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy") can add their favorite to the Compendium of Misunderstood Lyrics home page at www.flash.net/~trevas/index.htm.

Lovers of world music will enjoy the online magazine at www.rootsworld.com/rw/.

Looking for a place to buy and sell new and used musical instruments, electronic equipment, CDs, videos, books, and music? Try www.promusicfind.com.

Dean Markley has set up a musicians' referral service at www.deanmarkley.com/htmlDocs/ClassMstr.html.

Three songs from Acoustic Guitar's CD compilation Schemers and Dreamers can be heard on the Kaman Music site: www.kamanmusic.com/audio/AcousticGuitar1.html.

Vintage guitar enthusiasts will want to explore www.gbase.com.

A few Web sites that feature festival listings are: www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Genres/Folk/Festivals/, www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/events.html, www.froots.demon.co.uk/, http://www.festivalfinder.com/, www.webzone1.co.uk/www/festivals/, and http://oeonline.com/folk_fests/.

A musician's health survey is being conducted online at www.scs.unt.edu/surveys/msurvey/index.html.

Slide guitar enthusiasts and natives of Planet Dobro are congregating at www.mphase.com/planetdb.htm.

Hawaiian Music Island (www.mele.com) is an online mail order source for Hawaiian CDs, videos, and books, including the hard-to-find Slack-Key Secrets of Ray Kane, (see Reviews, June '97).

An extensive Web site of guitar lessons useful to beginners and veterans alike can be found at www.dreamscape.com/esmith/dansm/.

Looking for the lyrics to that great song you heard at your local bluegrass jam session? The site at www.nsknet.or.jp/~motoya/index.html has lyrics to just about any bluegrass song you can think of.

Punk ukulele players might want to disrupt the Riot Ukes site: www.speakeasy.org/~marks/riot/. More traditional Hawaiian music fans should add Susan J.'s Hawaiian Music Page, www.interpac.net/~nahenahe/susanmusic/current.html, to their surfing schedules.

Teacher Net is an online resource for classical and flamenco teaching professionals, an international database of teachers that students can access at www.guitarsalon.com.

Clarence White fanatics can find out more than they really want to know about their hero at the Byrdwatcher's site, www.ebni.com/byrds/; lobby for a multi-CD/video box set at www.sierra-records.com/; or order the online newsletter Clarence White Chronicles from colonels@ac.mbn.or.jp.

J'Open Mike Presents (www.pseudo.com) is a new online radio show featuring interviews and performances by "unplugged" indie rock artists. The program is based in New York's East Village, and cyber-surfers are encouraged to log on and participate (is there such a thing as E-heckling?).

Ever wanted to hear Bach played on five-string banjo over the Internet? Check out www.bullardintl.com/music/index.html.

A new Web service at www.sunhawk.com allows visitors to browse and buy sheet music from a catalogue and then play or print the score. Users may download the free music viewer and see and hear the first page of a score before deciding whether to buy it.

Joan Armatrading's video of "Everyday Boy" (transcribed in July 1996) can be viewed on the Internet at the Kaman Listening Station, www.KamanMusic.com.

A Web site called Gitarre Spielen (www.guitarplaying.com) offers lessons, chat rooms, tab, chord diagrams, and pictures.

The Musicians and Instrument Makers Forum, a Web-based interactive discussion of lutherie, has been organized by luthiers Nicholas Von Robison and Deb Suran. The address is www.mimf.com.

Fingerstylist Michael Gulezian has a Web site at www.buzzworm.com/timbreline.

A new online CD store called www.Joesgrille.com specializes in independent and import music.

Two new Web sites allow aspiring recording artists to showcase their demos on the Internet: Song#Touch at www.bigsong.com and Platinum Jack Music Interface at www.pjack.com.

Celtic fingerstylist John Sherman (see Reviews, June) has had 20 of his pieces in D A D G A D transcribed into tablature and standard notation. The music is available in loose-leaf form via his Web page: http://members.aol.com/JohnS16545/sherman1.htm.

The catalogue of videos and books from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop and Vestapol Videos is now online at www.guitarvideos.com. The site will eventually feature a monthly tune in tab that visitors can download and will offer them the opportunity to correspond with Grossman.

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