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Collecting, Auctions, Sales

General Information, some labels, and sounds

History of Recording and Machines

Sounds on the Web and Reissue Companies

Sound Restoration & Record Care Products

UW Music Library Pages

Institutions and Organizations

78-L listserve
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives IASA
- iasa - Germany/Switzerland Branch
- iasa - Nordic Branch
Association for Recorded Sound Collections ARSC
- ARSC Recorded Sound Discussion List Search
Finnish Institute of Recorded Sound
The [Swedish] National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images
City Of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
Michigan Antique Phonograph Society
Library of Congress
- Recorded Sound Reference Center
- American Special Collections: Format Recorded Sound
- The Nation's Forum Early Sound Recordings of America's Leaders (1918-20)
- L.C. American Memory Project
- National Recording Preservation Board
Audiovisual Information National Archives and Records Administration
British National Sound Archive
- Catalogue
- Playback
- British National Sound Archive World and Traditional Music Section
King's Sound Archive King's College London
National Library of Canada: The Virtual Gramophone
Phonothèque québécoise
The Swiss National Sound Archives
Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero New Zealand
Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
Austrian Academy of Sciences Phonogrammarchiv
Discoteca di Stato Italy
Historical Sound Recordings Sterling Memorial Library, Yale
New York Public Library
- Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
- Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound
Institute of Jazz Studies Rutgers University
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz Tulane University
Chicago Jazz Archive University of Chicago
Vincent Voice Library Michigan State University
National Gallery of the Spoken Word Michigan State University
The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music
Marr Sound Archives Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Les collections audiovisuelles
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
International Piano Archives Univ. of Maryland
Belfer Audio Laboratory & Archive Syracuse University
The Music Performance Research Centre, London
Save Our Sounds America's Recorded Sound Heritage Project
Edison National Historic Site
Record Collectors Guild
\ UCSB Cylinders
UCLA Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
The 78rpm Record Home Page
Tyrone's Record and Phonograph Page Michigan Antique Phonograph Society

Collecting, Auctions, Sales

The Value of Old 78s - With Comments on Docks' 78 RPM Price Guide Tim Gracyk
Tips For Selling Your Collection of 78s Tim Gracyk
Opera on Old 78 RPM Records - With Additional Comments About Bulky Sets of Classical Music Tim Gracyk
Cylinders: A Beginner's Guide Tim Gracyk
Assessing the Condition of Old 78 RPM Discs Tim Gracyk
Early Recordings of African Americans/Early Ragtime TIm Gracyk
Lawrence Holdridge Record Auctions a top dealer in classical 78s
Record-Rama Sound Archives mostly 45s
Nauck's Vintage Records auction
Norbeck & Peters 78 auction, 78, Lp, CD, books set price
Hawthorn's Antique Audio
J.N. Forster classical auction
The Record Finder
P & L Antiques and Collectables
Bill Clark's 78rpm set price 78s
Classicvinylcollector.com English Classical LPs, set price
Polyphony Classical LPs and Open-reel pre-recorded Tapes
Charles Geogory Recorded Vocal Art, auction
Lotz-Liste (International Mail Auctions)
Blues World
PhonoPassion

Discography

ODE - Opera Discography Encyclopaedia
Internet Archive 78 rpm downloads
Offenbacher Mozart Collection
Mose Tapiero, ocarina virtuoso
Mainspring Press DiscographiesCaruso, Jolson, Bert Williams, Williams Imitators, Moran & Mack
CHARM Discographies
The BLUE PAGES: The Encyclopedic Guide To 78RPM Party Records
Audiophile Records
OKeh Research Ross Laird
VIOLA - Database of Music Materials Finnish National Discography
Keep swinging Hans Koert
The Online Discographical Project
- Actuelle (U.S.)
- Ajax(Canadian Race 1920s)
- Aladdin
- American Record Company
- ARA
- ARFS Transcriptions
- Banner (1921-1935)
- Bell (1920s)
- Berliner
- Black Patti
- Bluebird (1933-1942)
- Broadway (1920s)
- Brunswick (American)
- Cameo
- Capitol
- Challenge (1920s by Sears)
- Champion (By Gennett and Decca)
- Columbia (American)
- Conqueror (1928-1941)
- Decca (American)
- Harmony (1925-1932, 1949)
- Hollywood (Mid 1920s)
- Musicraft (1936-1948)
- Okeh(1918-1935)
- Okeh (CBS)(1940-1957)
- Paramount (race Series)
- Perfect(U.S.)
- Puritan
- QRS
- Rainbow
- Regal
- Romeo
- Ronnex
- Savoy
- Signature
- Silvertone
- Starr Genett(Canadian, 1920s)
- Sunset(Mid 1920s)
- Supertone
- Triangle
- Variety
- Varsity
- Vaughan
- Victor(American)
- Vocalion
- Zonophone (U.S.)
Search for 78s in the "Online Discography Project"
RoJaRo Index Article Index(Blues-Country-Gospel-Soul-Rap-Metal-Reggae-Punk-World music-Progressive-Folk-etc ) Kjetil Maria Aase
Jazz Record Label Listings
Matrix and Catalog Numbers in G&S Discography Howard S. Friedman <
Record catalogs and other issues of the Victor Talking Machine Company
78 Quarterly
Birgit Lotz Verlag
The Blue Pages: The Encyclopedic Guide to 78 R.P.M. Party Records David Diehl
American Record Company
Harmony Label (1949) Checklist <
AUSTRALIAN and NEW ZEALAND 78 label dates
APGA, Artiphon, Edison, Edison-Bell, Fonotipia, Odeon, Zonophone
Acme
Derby 20cm
Derby 25cm
Gnom
Homocord-Lilliput
Lukraphon Rainer E. Lotz
National-Sozialistische-Schallplatten-Industrie
Semer Rainer E. Lotz
Tri-Ergon Rainer E. Lotz
Vox
The Red Saunders Research Foundation
- Aristocrat
- Chance
- Chess Part I (1950-1952)
- Chess PArt II (1953-1955)
- Club51
- Hy-Tone
- JOB
- Mad and M&M
- Miracle
- Old Swing-Master
- Opera
- Parrot and Blue Lake
- Ping
- Rhumboogie
- Seymour
- Sunbeam
- Theron
- Vitacoustic
Album Discographies pop Lp catalog listings
Paramount Records Discography
MARIA CALLAS: Performance Annals and Discography
Landon Ronald disocgraphy

General Information, some labels, sounds and history

The International Directory of Label Research
Collectable Records Illustrated Rare Record Guide
ROMFI Record Labels
Some Interesting 78rpm Record Labels
Pictures of 78rpm Record Labels A Selection of Early UK Record labels
Ted Staunton’s 78 rpm labels
Collectable Records Eastern Europe, USSR
Label Gallery
Paramount Records Discography University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
78 record label pictures
AUSTRALIAN and NEW ZEALAND 78 labels - Dates and Images
Classical Label Gallery mostly Lps
Early Record Labels
Durium
Lambert
Okeh
Odeon (U.S.)
Vogue
ROMFI Record Labels
A joyous, random compilation of record pictures
Tim's Phonographs and Old Records Tim Gracyk a great place to start
phonophan Tim Fabrizio
Nipperhead
Brahms at the Piano
L'aspect graphique Daniel Hennemand
Trenches on the Web WWI recordings
Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records
Vintage Jazz and Dance Music at 78 rpm
The Sound Room
Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox
78rpm Era Company Record Sleeves Project
78 Label group on Yahoo

History of Recording and Machines

Sounds on the Web and Reissue Companies

Sound Restoration & Record Care Products

Restoration Information

Products and Services

Restoration Software

Hardware

78 rpm Turntables
CEDAR
Archeophone Cylinder Player
The digital optomechanical method by V. V. Petrov, 1999
Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone
Electric Cylinder Reproducers Advanced Cylinder Technology Reproducer
ELP Laser Turntable
Esoteric re-equalizer & noise reducer
Garage A Records
KAB Electro-Acoustics
Millennia Music & Media Systems LPE-2 Analog Legacy Phonographic Processor
Turntables, Cylinder Players & Tonearms Kurt Nauck
Preamps & Equalizers Kurt Nauck
Styli & Needles Kurt Nauck
Needle Doctor
The optical turntable by Juraj Poliak, 1999
Phonograph Maker's Page
SADiE

Record Care and Cleaning

Disc Doctor
Keith Monks "Archivist" Cleaning Machine
LAST
Metal Edge, Inc. storage boxes, sleeves, envelopes
Nitty Gritty
Sleeve City-Replacement Sleeves
Conservation Resources International
Conservation Support Systems
University Products archival suppliers
Metal Edge, Inc. storage boxes, sleeves, envelopes
Hollinger Corp archival storage products
Tergitol 15-S-3 and Tergitol 15-S-9
Talas Conservation materials, incl. Tergitol
VPI Cleaning Machines

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