The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS)
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Note: The information here is supplied in good faith.  However the Society and its Agents cannot take responsibility for any consequential loss arising from the use of these links/ websites.  Likewise the inclusion of any link/ website on this page does not  mean the Society endorses the product, supplier or advertiser. ​

Societies & Journals
Hillandale News archive (CLPGS)
The Record Collector (Vocal Art)
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British Music Hall Society
Memory Lane Magazine
The Phonograph Society of South Australia
The Federation of Recorded Music Societies
Canadian Antique Phonograph Society
London Light Music Meetings Group
The Antique Phonograph Society (USA)
The Recorded Vocal Art Society
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
Gesellschaft Fur Historische Tontrager (GHT)
Discussion Forums
Antique Phonograph Society (USA)
The Talking Machine Forum
Official Archives
Archephone (Berliner 5" discs)
Ambientscape
British Library Sound Archive
EMI Archive Trust
Emile Berliner - Library of Congress site
National Jazz Archive
​SOAS London Uni: pre-1WW cylinder recordings from W Africa
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UCSB Library of Cylinder Recordings
Discographies
American Historical Recordings
The Gramophone Company's Discography (HMV, Columbia, EMI etc)
​Early British Disc Record Labels 1898-1926 (Norman Field)
The German National Discography (Birgit Lotz Verlag)
Indian and Persian Recordings (Michael Kinnear)
Library of Historical Audio Recordings
Little Wonder Records and Bubble Books
45 and 78 Worlds  
Museums
​Gramophone Museum (Melbourne, Australia)
Kanazawa Phonograph Museum (Kanazawa, Japan)
​Museo del Gramofono (Valladolid, Spain)
St Georgen Phonomuseum (Black Forest, Germany)
Science Museum - Sound Reproduction 
The Musical Museum, Brentford
The Norton Collection, Bromsgrove
Vienna Phonograph Museum (Austria)
Mechanical Music Museum, Northleach, Glocs**
Mechanical Music Museum, Cotton, Suffolk**

** Now believed to be permanently closed (2023)
Historic CD, Cylinder & 78 rpm   
​re-pressings

Document Records
Truesound Transfers
Vulcan Cylinder Records
Windyridge CDs
Sales, Servicing, Audio Restoration, Spares & Accessories
Audio Antiques USA
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Audio Restored
Cardboard Record Sleeves (10" & 12")
Holmfirth Antiques
Expert Stylus Company
J & M Wholesale (Mainsprings, Needles etc)
On The Air Ltd, the Vintage Technology Centre 
The BeysT Jukebox Company
Phonophan (Tim Fabrizio)
Record & Machine Auctions & Fairs
Birmingham International Record Fair
Rainer Lotz Verlag
Retrotech UK
Nauck's Vintage Records
Jazzhound
​Specialist Auction Services
Podcasts
Centuries of Sound
Sound of the Hound
The Shattered Podcast
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Artist-specific Sites/ Fan Clubs
Bing Crosby
Edith Piaf
George Formby
Gracie Fields
Great Operatic Tenors

Hobby Sites
British Record Labels and Dance Bands (Michael Thomas)
British Record Shops Archive
Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine: Vintage Recordings 1900-1939
History of UK Music Hall and Theatre (Arthur Lloyd)
Ian Calderbank
Little Gramophone Shop
Gilbert Gramophones
Museum of Obsolete Media
Norman Field
Peter Adamson
Phonorama
Russian Records
Talking Shellac
The Kiddie Rekord King
Miscellaneous
British Vintage Wireless Society
History of Car Radio
History of Car Record Players

History of Radio Broadcasting in the USA
Opera: the Autobiography of the Western World
No Edison
The World's Earliest Television Disc Recordings
Rare and Collectable Vinyl and CDs
The Musical Box Society of Great Britain
Zonophone Berliner
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New York's Broadcasting History
Florrie Forde performs at Wilton's Music Hall
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