Greetings,
Thank you for the responses. They are most appreciated and extremely
helpful.
I was able to connect (via phone) with Bill Klinger the chair of ARSC
Cylinder sub-committee.
He was most helpful in helping me to clarify what I am looking for when I
originally said "cylinder holdings".

For those of you who are working with or have cylinders, I am more
interested in ethnographically oriented content which usually would be
classified as "field recordings" and are usually cut on relatively soft
brown-wax cylinder blanks. This is in contrast to the the global body of
mass-duplicated "commercial entertainment cylinder records" (molded using
harder black wax or celluloid).

My interests is in seeing which languages have old recordings from this era
and what quantification of items there are in these languages. This is
similar to my previous post on January 24th 2019
https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1901&L=ARSCLIST&P=R5124  about
facilitating the exposure of these collection specifically for people
looking for language content.

Bill suggested to me based on his working knowledge of holdings that  in
specific libraries, archives, museums, and private collections (around the
world), He thinks it is safe to cite the survival of at least 100,000 field
recordings in the cylinder format, worldwide.

As Adrian Monk would say: "100,000 its a nice round number...."

- Hugh

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:30 AM Jennifer Vaughn <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> As of 2011, the Belfer had 19,750 cylinders; 11,971 were unique titles.
> The numbers probably haven't significantly changed since then.
> https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/belfer_cylinders.htm
> Cheers,
> Jennifer (formerly of Syracuse)
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> Such would take quite a bit of research; asking, searching, and
> compiling. A supplier of boxes might be interested, but I'm not sure who
> else might find it useful to know. There are a number of cylinder
> collections noted on the Internet; some with counts, some without. Using
> the string "recording cylinder collections count" you will find many
> collections. One would also have to conduct a search of the categories
> of cylinders, e.g. Field recordings, oral history, et al.
>
> Paul Jackson
> Trescott Research
> Steilacoom, WA
>
>
> On 5/13/2019 11:53 AM, Hugh Paterson III wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Where can I get a count of the wax cylinders in various archives?
> >
> > I mean LOC is claimed by Press Releases to have the largest collection in
> > the USA. But I can't find a count.
> > ATM@UI claims just under 7000. But I don't see an exact number anywhere
> > (but maybe I'm not looking in the right place?)
> >
> > University of California Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
> Anthropology
> > was part of the IRENE project but I don't see a full count. Someone says
> > 148 but I suspect this might be scoped to a single Indigenous language.
> >
> > In contrast to these numbers in the hundreds and low thousands, Tjeerd de
> > Graaf in various publication cites number in the tens of thousands for
> > the  Berliner
> > Phonogramm-Archiv and an archive in St. Petersburg Russia, and for
> Vienna.
> >
> > Any pointers?
> > - Hugh Paterson III
> >
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