Knowledge: vintage recordings
See Also:
- recreation → antiques → phonographs
- recreation → antiques → radio
- shopping → entertainment → recordings → audio → music → specialty → vintage
Links
- Desperate Man Blues: Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it's 1929
http://www.bluesworld.com/Bussard.html - Long article about the legendary 78 collector, reprinted from Washington City Paper.
- 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.
- Antique Phonograph Books
http://members.aol.com/allenamet/PhonoBooks.html - A collection of handbooks, manuals and catalogs for vintage phonographs and records.
- Glen's .MP3 Page - Vintage Hot-Dance and Jazz Recordings
http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/ - A site with MP3 files of vintage jazz and hot-dance music. Also has a how-to page.
- The 78rpm Record Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/8764/ - The complete resource for 78 collectors. Pictures of labels, many good articles and lots of links.
- 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.
- 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.
- Birgit Lotz Verlag & Lotz Liste
http://www.lotz-verlag.de/index.html - 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.
- Tyrone's Record and Phonograph Page
http://www.proaxis.com/~settlet/record/record.html - Articles, entire recordings, a collection list, and a comprehensive set of links on 78rpm, cylinder, and odd records, and the phonograph machines to play them on.
- Helmut Weber's Gramophone Hobby Page
http://wap03.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/weber1/grammo/hobbies.html - Includes sound clips from some historical recordings, and a guide to dating 78rpm 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.
- 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.
- Dawn of Sound
http://www.dawnofsound.com/ - Information about vintage recordings and reissues of vintage recordings. New RealAudio selections every month.
- Bill Clark's 78rpm Website
http://www.bill78.btinternet.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.
- 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.
- Ewing D. Nunn
http://www.flash.net/~bobgh/nunn.htm - Information about the man and his 78 RPM microgroove records released on the Audiophile lable. Includes a label discography.
- Mainspring Press
http://www.mainspringpress.com/ - Free online articles from a publisher of discographies of vintage 78s and cylinder records.
- The Virtual Gramophone
http://www.collectionscanada.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 comprehensive look at the 78-rpm era. A project of the National Library of Canada.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php - Information about cylinder recordings and streaming audio, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- UK 78rpm Collectors' Forum
http://www.geocities.com/uk78rpmforum/ - A UK based forum for collectors of 78rpm records, featuring label scans.
- Dinosaur Discs
http://www.78rpm.co.uk/index2.htm - Online magazine about vintage recordings; shop and museum devoted to old records in England.
- Vintage 78 RPM Era American Record Company Sleeves
http://www.bluesworld.com/Wayland.html - Images, and information about a research and restoration project.
- 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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