This page contains various wave file samplings from instruments I have access to. Some have been compressed using flac. See the flac site at sourceforge.net if you need a copy of the flac sofware to work with.
The wave files were recorded with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card, a Phonic MM502 mixer and an Oktava MK 319 microphone using Audacity at a 44100 Hz sampling rate unless otherwise noted in the file.
Files include the following instruments:
If anyone can turn some of these into Soundfonts (sf2) for use with programs like Timidity, would love to have copies uploaded to this site. Thanks.
Licensing is covered by the Free Music Public License (FMPL) version 0.7. You are free to use the sound samples in your own musical compositions.
Hope you enjoy listening to the sounds from these instruments as much as I do.