British Library Sound Archive

British Library Sound Archive

The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. It holds more than six million recordings, including over a million discs and 200,000 tapes. These include commercial record releases (chiefly from the UK), radio broadcasts (many from the BBC Sound Archive), and privately made recordings.

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enThe Archive became part of the British Library in 1983.
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enThe British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. It holds more than six million recordings, including over a million discs and 200,000 tapes. These include commercial record releases (chiefly from the UK), radio broadcasts (many from the BBC Sound Archive), and privately made recordings.
Country
enUnited Kingdom
Depiction
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Has abstract
enThe British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. It holds more than six million recordings, including over a million discs and 200,000 tapes. These include commercial record releases (chiefly from the UK), radio broadcasts (many from the BBC Sound Archive), and privately made recordings.
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Label
enBritish Library Sound Archive
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LibraryName
enBritish Library Sound Archive
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sounds.bl.uk/
www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/soundarch/saplayback/playback.html
web.archive.org/web/20150426043159/http:/www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/recordplayers.html
www.bl.uk/subjects/sound
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Adelina Patti
Alexander Hyatt King
BBC Sound Archive
British Library
British Library Sounds
British Museum
Category:Archives in the London Borough of Camden
Category:British Library collections
Category:Music archives in the United Kingdom
Category:Sound archives in the United Kingdom
Dialects
Drama
England
Enrico Caruso
Ernest Shackleton
European classical music
Euston Road
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Folk music
Francesco Tamagno
Frank Howes
Gramophone record
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Jazz
Lev Tolstoy
Lewis Waller
Literature
London
Metal masters
Moving image
Music
National Life Stories
Nature sounds
Nellie Melba
Oral history
Patrick Saul
Peter Copeland
Popular music
Quaker
Radio
Robert Mayer (philanthropist)
Russell Square
Spectrogram
Spoken language
Theatre Archive Project
The Gramophone Company
The Independent
United Kingdom
Wildlife
World music
Location
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Longitude
-.13
Name
enBritish Library Sound Archive
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Subject
Category:Archives in the London Borough of Camden
Category:British Library collections
Category:Music archives in the United Kingdom
Category:Sound archives in the United Kingdom
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Website
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