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      Paramount Records
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    • Earliest Blues and Jazz Collections
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Restoration


An additional service for any audio restoration needs

Digitising of older media to the format of your choice

Donate your wax phonograph cylinder to our archive


Please also consider donating to a reaearch centre such as the British Library's Sound Archive,

which have the appropriate facilities to look after the cylinder without further damage, donations

of wax cylinders to our archive will be well preserved, & only digitised if requested by the donor.



We specialise in the transfer and digitising of Wax Cylinders, Shellac and Vinyl,

to offer high quality transfers that match the original at competitive rates.


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Wax Cylinders


Equipment used

The Symposium Records Prototype Electric Phonograph for Cylinder Archiving

Edison & Pathe Cylinder Phonographs, Canaphonic Archivette for Phonographs


Formats

Edison 2 and 4 minute, Amberol Cylinder, Edison Brown Wax Cylinder, Edison

Bell Cylinder, Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder


Clarion Wax Cylinder, International Phonograph Indestructible Cylinder, Oxford

Records Cylinder, Pathe Cylinders (both sizes), Sterling Wax Cylinder


Recordings of any type can also be duplicated to a playable blank wax cylinder


Find out more

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Shellac and Vinyl


Equipment Used

Technics SP10 , Technics SL-1200 , Cartridges include Shure M44-7, Orofon Concorde,

and a range of varied sized elliptical and spherical stylus for specialised types of grooves.


Formats

Shellac, vinyl, acetate, lacquer of all sizes, speeds and varieties such as 12", 78 or 45 rpm


Find out more

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Additional Media


Miscellaneous

Reel to Reel Tape, Magnetic Wire Recordings, Compact Discs and Cassettes


Equipment Used

Revox G36, Minifon P55 Wire Recorder, DVD/CD Burners, Sony LBT LX9AV Hifi


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