This category is for web sites about the hobby of collecting vintage recordings -- such as shellac 10" records or wax cylinders -- as well as for Internet resources that would be useful for collectors.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dawn of Sound Information about vintage recordings and reissues of vintage recordings. New RealAudio selections every month.
- 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.
- Mainspring Press Specializes in high-quality, peer-reviewed books and electronic publications for researchers, librarians, archivists, and advanced collectors of historic sound recordings
- Dinosaur Discs Online magazine about vintage recordings; shop and museum devoted to old records in England.
- Tim's Phonographs and Old Records Tim Gracyk's home page: a large collection of original articles on vintage phonographs and recordings.
- The 78rpm Record Home Page The complete resource for 78 collectors. Pictures of labels, many good articles and lots of links.
- The Blue Pages: The Encyclopedic Guide to 78 RPM Party Records Focused on under-the-counter 78 RPM records and specialty series produced by very small labels.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Information about cylinder recordings and streaming audio, from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- 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.
- Majestic Phonograph History of two companies involved in the manufacture and sale of 7" and 9.25" etched label. Discography, mp3s, phonografs.
- 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.