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The British Institute of Recorded Sound became part of the British Library, which had been split off from the British Museum, in April 1983. [3] It was later renamed the British Library Sound Archive. The metal masters originally collected by the British Museum were transferred to the Archive in 1992. [6]
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The British Library’s Sound Archive today. Today, the British Library’s Sound Archive is one of the biggest repositories of sound in the world, containing over seven million sound recordings, including music, oral history, poetry and drama, accents and dialects, radio broadcasts and environmental recordings.
Feb 19, 2020 · The British Library Sound Archive contains more than seven million recordings, including clips that date back to the beginning of recorded sound (Photo By clare Mallison for new statesman) In 1930, a 17-year-old boy called Patrick Saul walked into a music shop in London in search of a particular recording of a violin sonata by the Hungarian composer Dohnányi.
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Oct 19, 2015 · The British Library is home to the nation’s sound archive: a collection of more than 6.5 million recordings dating back to the birth of recorded sound in the late 19th century and held on over 40 different types of discs, tapes and other formats. Global professional consensus is that we...
The British Library Sound Archive is one of the largest collections of sound recordings in the world. It has more than 1.5 million recordings so you have to spend more than a lifetime (120 years) to listen to them. The Sound Archive was founded by a music fan named Patrick Saul. Around 1930, being a teenager, Saul went into a record shop trying ...
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Formerly the National Sound Archive, the British Library Sound Archive holds one of the world's largest collections of recordings variously described as traditional, folk or 'world' music. It is a valuable resource for musicians of all backgrounds and an essential reference collection for the study of ethnomusicology and anthropology.
