- About the Project
- News
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Research
- Introductory Online Reading
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The Legacy of George W Broome
- Andamanese Awareness
- A History of the Talking Machine Web Articles Books
- CLPGS Lectures
- Understanding Soundscapes and Ecoacoustics
- An Introduction to Experimental and Ambient Music
- Early Ethnographic Film & Avant-garde Cinema
Paramount Records
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
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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
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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
Contact us to request further information