Sound Recordings Online: Free Downloads, Historical Information, etc.

•   American Memory: Performing Arts, Music (Library of Congress)  Search also on sound recordings to find recordings in other collections.
•   The CD information center
•   The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) (University of Southampton).  Through its archives, journal, conferences and discography project, CHARM aims to promote the study of music as sound. Research activity at CHARM ranges from the creation of analytical tools and software to new critical approaches that highlight the importance of performance in musical culture.
•   Cylinder of the Month (tinfoil.com)
•   Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (University of California-Santa Barbara).  Digital files of more than 5,000 cylinder recordings. The collection includes nearly all types of recordings made around the turn of the 20th century including popular song, vaudeville, minstrelsy, comedic monologues, classical and operatic, solo instrumental recordings, bands, foreign and ethnic recordings, and speeches.
•   Cylinders on the Web (Trevor W. Hill)
•   Early or Historical Sound Recordings Collections and other 78 and Cylinder Sites of Interest (University of Washington)
•   Edison National Historic Site - Sounds (National Park Service)
•   Out-of-Print Sound Recordings (Anna Seaberg)
•   The Cylinder Recordings from the Gerhardt Marimba Xylophone Collection.  Percussive Arts Society Museum.
•   Used Classical CDs (University of Illinois)
•   Vintage Recordings (Menlo Park, Edison, New Jersey).  More than 100 recordings from the time of Thomas Alva Edison.  Labels include Edison, Berliner Gramophone Company, Columbia Graphophone Company, Little Wonder Records, Victor Talking Machine Company. Also included are the Nations Forum Recording Project (1918-1920) and recordings relating to the elections of 1908 and 1912.
•   The Virtual Gramophone:  Canadian Historical Sound Recordings (Library and Archives Canada)