The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is a website dedicated to the preservation and history of cylinder recordings, the format of choice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before the disc took over. Most of the earliest recordings of human voice and performance are on this format, and over 7,000 are digitized and available on this website they say. So check out some Ragtime or Vaudeville!
The recordings can be listened to online or downloaded as mp3 or wav. The oldest recording dates from 1894 and is by Foh's 23rd Regiment Band of New York.
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