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Mainspring Press Free Online Discographies - FREE for individual use.

I am probably the last person to know about this but just in case, I wanted to share it with the FORUM. This information is sponsored by the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) at the University of California–Santa Barbara. They are sharing digitized copies of (26) disc and cylinder discographies.....which is just amazing. Most of these books are out of print.......and many of which are very expensive to own a hard copy. For example, most of the Victor discographies alone cost hundreds of dollars each.

https://mainspringpress.org/mainspring- ... ographies/

Thank you UCSB for your very generous gift to the recorded sound community!

I use Chrome on a Mac which directs to Adobe, which has a limit on pdf downloads if you don't pay for Adobe. If you right mouse click on the pdf link, open the book in "incognito window". You then can download all of the pdf books with no limitation.

Ken
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

This is a wonderful resource! I have gotten some publications in the past and they have always been first class. There were a number of books that I had interest in but never got enough records of that type to make the investment. Now I have them! I have downloaded aii of the information (never know when it might go away. Over time I will print and bind them to add to my book collection.

Again thx for posting this.
Abe

Thank you, Ken! I am definitely going to use this for my Music History research paper -- a lot of good discographies on here!