Wax Cylinder Archive

Phonograph Reproduction Equipment

Edison Standard Model A, Edison Gem and 2 Pathé Salon Phonographs for inter cylinders.

Pickups and Microphones

Canaphonic Archivette, Zylia ZM-1, Shure SM57, Beyerdynamic M160

Transfer Digitising Software

Audacity

Reaper

Mastering Software

Izotope RX and Ozone

Description

A wax cylinder is an analog recording sound format that consists of a mechanical grooved cylinder made of soft wax. The earliest wax cylinders are a cream colour while subsequent wax cylinders were a warm medium brown colour. The "standard" cylinder dimensions are typically 2¼" in diameter and 4–4¼" in length, although they vary widely, ranging from 1⅓" diameter × 4" length, 2¼" diameter × 8" length, 3¾" diameter by 6" length, and 5" diameter × 4" length.

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

Certain songs on this page have never been digitised, or available online

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