Open Directory - Arts: Music: Collecting: Vintage Recordings
See also: - A collection of handbooks, manuals and catalogs for vintage phonographs and records. - About the history of English 78rpm records and cylinders, with Gramophone record labels and advertisements to view, and early sounds to listen to. - Book publishers specializing in discographies, particularly the German National Discography -- a systematic listing of all recordings of the 78rpm shellac era that were made in Germany. - Information about cylinder recordings and streaming audio, from the University of California, Santa Barbara. - Information about vintage recordings and reissues of vintage recordings. New RealAudio selections every month. - Online magazine about vintage recordings; shop and museum devoted to old records in England. - This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th century. Features RealAudio streams of acoustic and electrically recorded records. - 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. - 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. - Free online articles from a publisher of discographies of vintage 78s and cylinder records. - 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. - A safe place to talk about those talking machines. Covers Edison cylinders, 78s, Diamond discs and 10" LPs. - Audio selections from a collection of 78 RPM records, rotated monthly. Also, demonstration clips of noise reduction, and a trivia quiz. - The complete resource for 78 collectors. Pictures of labels, many good articles and lots of links. - Focused on under-the-counter 78 RPM records and specialty series produced by very small labels. - 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 Gracyk's home page: a large collection of original articles on vintage phonographs and recordings. - Articles, entire recordings, a collection list, and a set of links on 78rpm, cylinder, and odd records, and the phonograph machines to play them on. - Images, and information about a research and restoration project. - Long article about the legendary 78 collector, from Washington City Paper. (February 12, 1998)