Links
The Internet Archive
http://archive.org
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org
Songbird player
http://songbirdnest.com
Tobar an Dualchais ~ Kist o Riches
http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/index.html
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
http://www.collectioncanada.ca/gramophone/
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
Digital Library of Appalachia : Music
http://www.aca-dla.org/dlamusic/dlamusic.html
British Library Ethnographic Wax Cylinders – search on “Gaelic”
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/wax/
FARNE ~ Folk Archive Resource North East
http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/ListeningPost.cfm
The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society’s on-line concert of Scottish music recorded from original phonograph cylinders
http://www.clpgs.org.uk/Sound_lib_scottish_page.htm
The Irish Traditional Music Archive online digitised material including sound recordings
http://www.itma.ie/English/digitised_materials.html
The Roots Music Listening Room online archive of Cape Breton fiddle music from the 1930s-50s
http://juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenToCapeBretonFiddles.htm
Manchester District Music Archive
http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/archive/homePage.php
Cyprus Music Network online archive of traditional music
http://www.cmn.intercollege.ac.cy/index.htm
The Global Music Archive (GMA) at Vanderbilt University
http://www.globalmusicarchive.org/
The ENOMA project – European network for online publishing of music and musical preformance at academical institutions.
http://www.enoma.no/index.page
Lute and guitar tracks by Rob MacKillop
http://www.songoftherose.co.uk/
Scottish lute music tracks by Rob MacKillop
http://www.rmguitar.info/ScottishGuitar.htm and
http://www.rmguitar.info/mp3.htm
Malcolm Taylor of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at the English Folk Dance & Song Society introduces Will Prentice of the British Library Sound Archive on the portable wax cylinder recorder and the conditions under which they were used to make field recordings in the early 20th century. Andrew King explores its contents and introduces some of the early collectors and performers. Part of the SoundCases series at the British Library. Speakers are sometimes off-microphone and examples played are as heard by the audience.
Recorded on 12 December 2007
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/downloads/files/efdsscylinders.mp3
Nigel Gatherer’s collection of obscure vinyl recordings of Scottish folk music available for download.
http://themusicgatherer.blogspot.com/2009/10/welcome-to-music-gatherer.html
Some interesting consertina recordings including some Scottish music:
http://www.concertina.org/sound_archive/sound_archive_frame.htm
British Library Online Sound Archive
http://sounds.bl.uk/
Irish music recordings etc from CCE.
http://comhaltas.ie/music/