The Finnish National Sound Archive
National Library
The collection of playback and recording equipment
Collection materials in format
Analogue
The collection of playback and recording equipment contains historical equipment ranging from phonographs to the first electric record players.
Collection description
The collection of playback and recording equipment contains historical equipment ranging from phonographs to the first electric record players.
The collection has a total of 50 functional devices. Some of the devices are exhibited in the showcase of instruments on the ground floor of the Fabiania building. This exhibition presents phonographs, horn gramophones, table gramophones and miniature gramophones, as well as music boxes, chamber barrel organs and the first electronic playback devices.
Collection languages
Material type
archives
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
The Finnish National Sound ArchiveParent collection
The Finnish National Sound ArchiveRestrictions of use
The material's use is restricted, please contact the customer serviceCollection themes
More information about format
device
Collection sizes
51
titles of publications
Acquisition policy
procurements