The Great 78 Project

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The Great 78 Project
Great 78 Project logo.jpg
Type Volunteer project
Purpose Digitizing and preserving 78 RPM vinyl records
Location
  • California
Key people
B. George, sound colllections curator
Website http://great78.archive.org/

The Great 78 Project is dedicated to the preservation of 78 RPM records by digitizing them and posting collections on the internet.

The Project also stores the physical vinyl discs in its warehouse when possible. [1]

References

  1. http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/internet-archive-78-records-phonograph "We may someday lose the ability to digitally play back certain file formats... but we’ll always be able to cobble together a machine with a needle and a horn that can play a record, if you can keep that record in good shape." - B. George, sound collections curator at the Internet Archive.

External Links

Great 78 at Archive.org

Archive of Contemporary Music

78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P.

the Great 78 on Twitter