The World Musical Instrument Collection of Wesleyan University's music department boasts several hundred instruments ranging from the berimbau to the gaohu -- so many that Wesleyan has now created a Virtual Instrument Museum to showcase them all.

The online database includes images of the instruments, audio files of the music they make, video showing the instruments in action, and a map showing where the instruments come from. You can search by instrument type, geographic region, material of construction, and through an alphabetical index.