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Enrico Nichelatti

Amateur violinist

Links

Free sheet music

• Mutopia Project
• Werner Icking Music Archive
• Johan Tufvesson's Free Sheet Music - 17th and 18th centuries.
• Free Sheetmusic Library - Orchestral scores by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky. All the string quartets and quintets by Mozart.
• Variations
• Neue Mozart - Mozart's opera omnia(?).
• IMSLP
• CCARH Publications
• Bach Gesellschaft - Bach's opera omnia in djvu format.
• Sheets for Violin - Sheet music for violin (some links do not work).
• Gutenberg: the Sheet Music Project - Digitized public domain sheet music.
• The Violin Site - Free violin sheet music.
• Biblioteca Digitale Italiana (Music Section) - Scanned sheet music (in Italian).

Music theory, education, discussion, and collaboration

• Scuola Orchestra - The "Scuola Orchestra" Association, of which I am a member. Its website is designed and administred by me.
• Kompoz - An online music collaboration website. Free and very friendly.
• ABRSM - The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. I took all my violin exams in its Examination Centre in Rome, Italy.
• Fiddle Forum - Online community of fiddle, violin, and alternative strings players.
• Maestronet Forums - Online community about violin playing.
• Violin Masterclass - Online violin teaching and discussion.
• The Violin Etude (Study) Page - Many violin études (studies) commented.
• Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net - Music theory.
• Dolmetsch - Music theory and history.
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
• All About Violin Strings - Interesting article about violin strings.

Downloadable audio files

• Bach's Brandenburg Concertos - Freely downloadable Brandenburg Concertos at the Czech Radio website in both mp3 and flac formats.
• Internet Audio Archive - Part of the Internet Archive dedicated to audio. It includes an open-source audio section.
• Mozart Tower - Mozart's opera omnia. Freely downloadable audio files.
• Wikipedia Sound List - Free downloadable music at Wikipedia.
• Fulda Symphony Orchestra - Free downloadable music of this orchestra's performances.
• Magnatune - Online royalty-free music shop. You can decide how much to pay for what you buy. Direct download buying in mp3 and flac formats. Free licensing for non-commercial use.

Friends who own a website

• Desmond Fennell - Irish writer and thinker.
• Consonus String Quartet - The quartet my teacher, Fabrizio Paoletti, plays with.
• Marcello Sirignano - Jazz violinist, my teacher for one year many years ago.
• Mark Alan Knight - The "Madfiddler", owner of Fiddle Forum.
• Graham Clark - Jazz violinist.
• Pete Hartley - Professional violinist, online teacher.
• Patricia Clark - Trad fiddler.
• Jim Dorans - Violin player and online teacher.
• Natalie - Violin and viola player, the "Cupboard Dweller".
• Martyn - The "Lakeland Fiddler".
• Inge - Trad fiddler from the Netherlands.
• Heidi Copeland - Classical violinist from Idaho, USA.
• Jennifer E. Ford - Trad fiddler from Philadelphia, USA.

Motorbike

• World SBK - Official website of the Superbike World Championship. Race videos available.
• Ducati - Ducati motorbikes, official website.
• The Ultimate Ducati Forum - Online community of Ducati owners. There is a forum section dealing with Sport-Touring Ducati motorbikes.
• Motonline - Web version of the magazine "Dueruote" (in Italian).
• Motociclismo - Web version of the magazine "Motociclismo" (in Italian).
• Ridesafe - Suggerimenti per una guida sicura - Written by Il Principe Brutto. Useful guide to safe motorbike riding (in Italian). Downloadable PDF version, available here too.
• InPista - Online browsable manual on sport motorbike driving (in Italian).

Photography

• Digital Camera Reviews
• Photography Tutorials at Cambridge in Colour
• Nature Photographers - Online magazine.
• MaxArtis - Photographers online community with galleries (in Italian).
• My Picasa online web albums

PC software

• Gnu Solfege - Free music education and ear training software.
• Lilypond - Free music notation software.
• Kristal Audio Engine - Multi-track recorder, sequencer, and mixer. Free for personal, educational and non-commercial use.
• Audacity - Free audio editor and recorder.
• The GIMP - The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
• Raw Therapee - Donationware RAW image processing software.
• CHDK - Free sideware (it isn't a firmware hack, it is completely reversible) that adds RAW capabilities (and much more) to many Canon Powershot cameras. To be installed on the camera memory card.
• MiKTeX - Free Windows porting of the LaTeX typesetting system for writing scientifically-oriented (and not) documents.
• WinEdt Shell - Shareware LaTeX editor. It integrates perfectly with MiKTeX.
• Blender3D - Free software for 3D graphics.
• avast! 4 - Antivirus software for Windows. The home edition is free.
• TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000, Mac OS X, and Linux.
• AxCrypt - Free (GNU license) file encryption software for Windows.
• Free Download Manager
• FileZilla - Free FTP client and server.
• Kompozer - Free WYSIWYG web authoring system (used for the present website).
• XSPF Web Music Player - Open-source Flash mp3 player for websites.
• XSPF Flash mp3 Player - Revised version of the above XSPF Web Music Player (used for the present website).

Smartphone software

• GPS Track - Free java program to log the track during a trip. For java-enabled smartphones. External GPS antenna and bluetooth connection are required. The track can be exported in Google-Earth kml, GPS-exchange gpx, and csv formats. I've verified that it works on my Nokia 6630 phone with a Holux Slim 236 GPS antenna.

Other

• Dionysos Rooms - The Ikarian pension where I spend my summer holidays. The website is designed and administred by me.
• Island of Ikaria - The Greek island where I spend my summer holidays.
• ENEA - The research agency where I work.
• Minidisc Community Portal - Online community of minidisc owners.
• Dynamic Drive - Online tools to enhance website building.

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