Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

EdisongoldmouldedBeginning in 2002, the Department of Special Collections at University of California, Santa Barbara, began digitizing their collection of old cylinder recordings. Since then, they have created over 36,000 digital files. Pop over to the site and check out the project. You can listen to everything from hymns, to Hawaiian music, to Vaudeville performances, all from the early 1900s.

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