http://www.kultur.gov.tr/smm/cvl/main.html
unfortunatly it is all in turkish .
here is the turkish daily news article about this:

Virtual Music Museum explores Turkish music wealth

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News


The Culture and Tourism Ministry has established a Virtual Musical Museum to share the musical wealth of Anatolia with music lovers both at home and abroad.

The museum's coordinator, Oğuz Elbaş, told the Anatolia news agency that Turkish music from ancient times to the present day were documented in the Virtual Music Museum project.

Elbaş said chronological and historical information on Turkish music, instruments and recording sessions of musical pieces were compiled and transferred to digital format.

Noting that a comprehensive audiovisual source had been established for those interested in Turkish musical culture both here and abroad, Elbaş said, “The project includes old and new research on the development of Turkish music throughout history as well as music from all civilizations that settled in Anatolia.

“Original musical instruments, or their equivalent if the originals are not available, archaeological materials such as tablets and ornaments associated with these instruments and other related materials are displayed at the museum in chronological order,” he said.

He said the museum was also an important source in terms of world music culture, adding, “All the audio and visual materials related to Anatolian music displayed at the museum were compiled in a way so as to complement the historical development of world music culture.”



Turkey possesses largest number of old musical instruments:

Elbaş also said there were over 1,000 archaeological and ethnographic musical materials in Turkey appropriate for display. “Turkey possesses the largest number of archeologically significant musical instruments in the world.”

The museum features 250 images, 50 photographs and a large number of sound recordings obtained by exploring the 12,000-year history of Turkish musical culture, Elbaş said. “A musical structure including a comprehensive archive of the world's oldest music and instruments is featured at the museum. It explores the thousand-year history of our musical culture.”

“We have 42 ‘raspa,' a musical instrument dating back 12,000 years, mostly found in the provinces of Hatay, Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır. This wealth we possess attracts a great deal of attention from abroad,” he said. “People say they could establish a museum if they possessed even one musical instrument like a raspa, which is specific to our culture.”

Elbaş said archaeological and ethnographic musical instruments should be appropriately displayed. “These instruments are dispersed among Turkish museums; however, no serious work has been done so far for a music museum. There are 100 music museums in Germany and 150 in France. Yet they don't possess the same historical musical instruments we have.”

“It is therefore very sad that we don't have a real music museum in Turkey,” he added.

Elbaş said the Culture and Tourism Ministry was also working to establish a music museum aimed at further promoting Turkish culture and that there would be a congress titled “Music Culture and Music Museum in Turkey Throughout History,” in May at Ankara's Bilkent University.



Raspa:

According to research posted on the ministry's Web site, music and dance were commonplace in Anatolia, performed during religious ceremonies as well as at funeral rituals during the Neolithic period.

Evidence shows that group dances were done and that musical instruments such as small bells, drums and raspa were used during this period.

Instruments made of bone dating back to the Neolithic and post-Neolithic periods have also been unearthed. Sound was created by rubbing a rough object over notches located on the instruments. The raspa is the oldest and most common musical instrument of ancient times, with a sound produced in this fashion.

The Virtual Music Museum can be visited at: http://www.kultur.gov.tr/smm/cvl/main.html