Learn about the project of digitization wax cylinder recordings of Irish music at University College Cork

Learn about the project of digitization wax cylinder recordings of Irish music at University College Cork

An overview of a project in which fragile wax cylinder recordings of Irish music were digitized at University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
University College Cork, Ireland (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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