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

• Tinfoil.com
• Edison National Historic Site-Sounds
• Library of Congress American Memory Project
  • Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
  • Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
• National Library of Canada-Virtual Gramophone
• Percussive Arts Society-Gerhardt Collection
• Thomas Edison's Attic (WMFU Radio show)
• Antique Phonograph Music (WFMU Radio show)
• Trevor Hill-Cylinders on the Web
• Vintage Recordings from Menlo Park in Edison, New Jersey

Phonographs and Historic Instruments

• The Archeophone (Henri Chamoux)
• Phonograph Makers' Pages (Christer Hamp)

Online Cylinderographies ("Discographies" of Cylinders)

• The Truesound Online Discography Project (Edison cylinders)
• Columbia "XP" Cylinder Records (1901-1909) (PDF format)

Archives with Cylinder Recordings

• British Library, National Sound Archive
• Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music
• Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
• National Library of Canada-Music Division
• Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound
• Swedish Phonograph Archive
• Syracuse University-Belfer Audio Laboratory

Organizations

• Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Preserving and Handling Sound Recordings

• Preserving Your Sound Recordings (Library of Congress)
• Audio Preservation (CoOL)
  

Websites with Historical Information About Edison

• Edison National Historic Site
• Edison Birthplace Museum
• Menlo Park in Edison, New Jersey: Birthplace of Recorded Sound
• The Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University
• Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Laboratory at the Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village

An initiative of the UC Santa Barbara Library • (805) 893-5444 • Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010. Direct questions or comments about the project or this page to the project staff or visit the help pages.