Recommended Websites
(See cylinder bibliography for recommended books)
General Cylinder Recording History
- Phonograph Cylinders: A Beginner's Guide (Tim Gracyk)
- Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders History (Glenn Sage)
- History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph (About.com)
- Recording Technology History (Steve Schoenherr)
Digitized and Web-Accessible Early Recordings
- Edison National Historic Site
- Library and Archives Canada -Virtual Gramophone
- Library of Congress - National Jukebox
- Library of Congress American Memory Project
- Percussive Arts Society-Gerhardt Collection
- Syracuse University - Belfer Cylinders Digital Collection
- Tinfoil.com
- UC Santa Barbara - Discography of American Historical Recordings
- WFMU - Thomas Edison's Attic and Antique Phonograph Music
Phonographs and Historic Instruments
Online Cylinderographies ("Discographies" of Cylinders)
- The Truesound Online Discography Project (Edison cylinders)
- Columbia "XP" Cylinder Records (1901-1909) (PDF format)
Archives with Cylinder Recordings
- American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
- Libraries and Archives of the Autry (Lummis Collection)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France Sound Archives
- British Library, National Sound Archive
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music
- Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
- Library and Archives Canada
- Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound
- Syracuse University-Belfer Audio Laboratory
Organizations
- Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
- International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
Preserving and Handling Sound Recordings
Websites with Historical Information About Edison
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