Music Library Finland (musiclibrary.fi) is a privately-held collection of music-related resources ranging from phonograph cylinders and gramophone records to modern digital media and broadcast recordings.
Our aim is to preserve recordings, many of which would invariably be forgotten by many archives in favour of more popular material, as well as to assemble and maintain an authoritative collection of specialist collections such as sound effects, music and production library backing tracks, religious group music and music-related broadcast audio. Various ethnic and language-specific collections such as Scottish bagpipe music and Finnish recordings are also being maintained.
Presently we face a mammoth, long-term in cataloguing a very substantial collection of material. Of course, we can never say no to new donations which will be warmly received, whether they be recordings, information, financial assistance or good old-fashioned manpower.
Through the MusicLibrary.fi web site we aim to make available regularly-updated collections catalogues and other resources of interest to the music enthusiast, collector and scholar. MusicLibrary.fi is being partially supported by corporate sponsorship of its operations and plans to seek not-for-profit fund status in the future.
Your comments, feedback, corrections and material donations/provision are warmly welcome. Please do feel free to get in touch.