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The British Library Sound Archive (formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound) 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bl.uk/projects/save-our-sounds )〕 including over a million discs and 200,000 tapes. These include commercial record releases, chiefly from the UK, but with some from overseas, radio broadcasts (many from the BBC Sound Archive) and privately made recordings. == History == The history of the Sound Archive can be traced back to 1905, when it was first suggested that the British Museum should have a collection of audio recordings of poets and statesmen. The Gramophone Company started donating metal masters of audio recordings in 1906 (on the basis that records would wear out), with a number of donations being made up until 1933. These recordings included some by Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Caruso and Francesco Tamagno, and others of Lev Tolstoy, Ernest Shackleton, Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Lewis Waller. A number of shellac pressings were also donated in the period 1920-50.〔 In 1955, Patrick Saul founded the ''British Institute of Recorded Sound'', after realising that material was in danger of being lost as the British Museum did not maintain a comprehensive archive. The Institute was located in a property owned by the British Museum in Russell Square (with rent and rates guaranteed by Robert Mayer), and supported by a donation from the Quaker trust in Birmingham. A public appeal resulted in the donation of thousands of shellac discs, which started off the collection.〔 The British Institute of Recorded Sound became part of the British Library, which had been split off from the British Museum, in April 1983.〔Day, T. (2001). The National Sound Archive: the first fifty years. pp 41-64 in ''Aural History: Essays on Recorded Sound'' (A. Linehan, Ed.). The British Library. ISBN 0-7123-4741-0〕 It was later renamed the British Library Sound Archive. The metal masters originally collected by the British Museum were transferred to the Archive in 1992.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://searchbeta.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLLSA6875418&indx=1&recIds=BLLSA6875418&recIdxs=0&elementId=&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&dscnt=0&frbrVersion=&vl%28174399379UI0%29=any&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1295010468281&srt=rank&mode=Basic&dum=true&vl%28freeText0%29=british%20museum%20recordings&vid=BLVU1 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Library Sound Archive」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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