Directory of Vintage Recordings Resources

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This category is for web sites about the hobby of collecting vintage recordings -- such as shellac 10" records or wax cylinders -- as well as for Internet resources that would be useful for collectors.

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Resources in This Category

• Bill Clark's 78rpm Website

  http://www.78records.co.uk/
  About the history of English 78rpm records and cylinders, with Gramophone record labels and advertisements to view, and early sounds to listen to.

• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

  http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
  Information about cylinder recordings and streaming audio, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Dawn of Sound

  http://www.dawnofsound.com/
  Information about vintage recordings and reissues of vintage recordings. New RealAudio selections every month.

• Dinosaur Discs

  http://www.78rpm.co.uk/index2.htm
  Online magazine about vintage recordings; shop and museum devoted to old records in England.

• Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine

  http://www.dismuke.org/
  This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th century. Features RealAudio streams of acoustic and electrically recorded records.

• Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders

  http://www.tinfoil.com/
  Antique phonographs, early sound recording methods, wax cylinder records, excerpts of old-time marching band music, and much of interest to collectors of vintage records.

• Jan's 78 RPM Record Warehouse

  http://www.78rpm.hovers.nl/
  Listen to a collection of 78 RPM records, transcribed in streaming Real Audio, accompanied with background information, photos and record labels. In English and Dutch.

• Mainspring Press

  http://www.mainspringpress.com/
  Specializes in high-quality, peer-reviewed books and electronic publications for researchers, librarians, archivists, and advanced collectors of historic sound recordings

• Majestic Phonograph

  http://www.majesticrecord.com/
  History of two companies involved in the manufacture and sale of 7" and 9.25" etched label. Discography, mp3s, phonografs.

• Nipperhead Antique Phonograph

  http://www.nipperhead.com/index.html
  Information pertaining to antique phonographs, gramophones, records, Victor, Edison, Columbia, and of course, Nipper. Contains cylinder and disc sound recordings, a phonograph gallery, repair instructions, and resource listings.

• Phono-holics Anonymous

  http://home.earthlink.net/~gnordenstam/
  A safe place to talk about those talking machines. Covers Edison cylinders, 78s, Diamond discs and 10" LPs.

• Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox

  http://www.swazoo.com/
  Audio selections from a collection of 78 RPM records, rotated monthly. Also, demonstration clips of noise reduction, and a trivia quiz.

• The 78rpm Record Home Page

  http://78rpmrecord.com/
  The complete resource for 78 collectors. Pictures of labels, many good articles and lots of links.

• The Blue Pages: The Encyclopedic Guide to 78 RPM Party Records

  http://www.hensteeth.com/
  Focused on under-the-counter 78 RPM records and specialty series produced by very small labels.

• The Virtual Gramophone

  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/index-e.html
  A multimedia Web site devoted to the first half-century of recorded sound in Canada. When complete, it will provide a look at the 78-rpm era. A project of the National Library of Canada.

• Tim's Phonographs and Old Records

  http://www.gracyk.com/
  Tim Gracyk's home page: a large collection of original articles on vintage phonographs and recordings.

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