Wax Cylinder Archive

Phonograph equipment consists of the Edison Standard Model A, Edison Gem and Pathé Phonograph for inter cylinders.

This is only the beginning and will be updated gradually as a work in progress archive:

(Particular music in the archive has never been digitised, or made available online)

Please Note: Many of these recordings will have audible imperfections due to age, such as, noise, crackle, wow and intermittent reduced volume, which is normal.

Further Information:

* Black Recording Artists 1877-1926: An Annotated Discography (2015)

* Cylinder Formats and Labels: Cylinder Manufacturers by City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society

* Field Recordings of Black Singers and Musicians An Annotated Discography 1901-1943 - Craig Gibbs (2018)

* History of the Cylinder Phonograph - The Library of Congress.

* Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks

* Recording History - The British Record Industry 1888-1931 - Peter Martland (2013)

* The Fabulous Phonograph 1877-1977 by Roland Gelatt (1954) Library of Congress pdf

* The Remarkable Life of Colonel George Gouraud - Howard Hope (2021)

* The Ultimate Phonograph Cylinder Handbook RS6 by CLPGS (CLPGS Reference Series Books)

Thanks to Ozan from the RadioMuseumCrafts shop for providing us with their Pathé Phonograph, this will be utilised for the cylinder collection, please check out his amazing Etsy store as well.