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• Recreation: Antiques: Phonographs  (18)
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• Shopping: Entertainment: Recordings: Audio: Music: Specialty: Vintage  (7)

Bill Clark's 78rpm Website - - About the history of English 78rpm records and cylinders, with Gramophone record labels and advertisements to view, and early sounds to listen to.

Birgit Lotz Verlag & Lotz Liste - - 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.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project - - Information about cylinder recordings and streaming audio, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dawn of Sound - - Information about vintage recordings and reissues of vintage recordings. New RealAudio selections every month.

Dinosaur Discs - - Online magazine about vintage recordings; shop and museum devoted to old records in England.

Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - - 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 - - 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.

Ewing D. Nunn - - Information about the man and his 78 RPM microgroove records released on the Audiophile lable. Includes a label discography.

Glen's .MP3 Page - Vintage Hot-Dance and Jazz Recordings - - A site with MP3 files of vintage jazz and hot-dance music. Also has a how-to page.

Jan's 78 RPM Record Warehouse - - 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 - - Free online articles from a publisher of discographies of vintage 78s and cylinder records.

Nipperhead Antique Phonograph - - 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 - - A safe place to talk about those talking machines. Covers Edison cylinders, 78s, Diamond discs and 10" LPs.

The 78rpm Record Home Page - - The complete resource for 78 collectors. Pictures of labels, many good articles and lots of links.

Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox - - Audio selections from a collection of 78 RPM records, rotated monthly. Also, demonstration clips of noise reduction, and a trivia quiz.

Tim's Phonographs and Old Records - - Tim Gracyk's home page: a large collection of original articles on vintage phonographs and recordings.

Tyrone's Record and Phonograph Page - - 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.

UK 78rpm Collectors' Forum - - A UK based forum for collectors of 78rpm records, featuring label scans.

Vintage 78 RPM Era American Record Company Sleeves - - Images, and information about a research and restoration project.

The Virtual Gramophone - - 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.

Desperate Man Blues: Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it's 1929 - - Long article about the legendary 78 collector, reprinted from Washington City Paper. (February 12, 1998)