This just jumped out at me, from when I was reading Neatorama today – the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project page! They’ve got over five and a half thousand old cylinder recordings available to listen to online, educational titles, dancehall music, classical, comedy (from various countries) and a plethora of other categories. There’s the history of cylinder recordings to read about too – from the first tin foil ones in 1877 to the very last of their kind commercially produced in 1929 – not a bad run! I’m looking forward to listening to some of these – it somehow makes the Victorian/Steampunk era a lot closer to hear it.