This is a comprehensive encyclopedia website incorporating plucked stringed instruments : the lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin. There are the more well known western instruments, as well as their historic ancestors, but there are also a wide range of more unfamiliar instruments from all over the world.

Most of the instruments shown in the website are from the vast collection of over 200 different plucked stringed instruments collection by website owner Henny de Bruin on his travels across the world.