The Audio Preservation Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to preserve the music and sound recordings comprising the aural history of our world by expanding sound recording collections in public archives, libraries, museums, universities and research centers.
We provide free services to the archives preserving sound collections, as well as to individuals and businesses looking to donate their collections for preservation. The services we provide include finding, transporting, documenting, and then donating sound recordings to the archives. Recordings we donate are used for exhibits, education and research. We are transitioning recordings from a private setting to a public one, so that you and many others can access and enjoy them.
Our funding comes from individuals like yourself. Every dollar you donate preserves a historical recording that is donated to us. Please donate what you can right away. If you have any questions about our activities, funding, and/or how you can help us accomplish our mission, please contact us.
We are dedicated to making this website a wonderful resource for music lovers and researchers. Please take a minute to dig a little deeper and learn about how we are accomplishing our mission. We have also gathered much information about how to care for your own collection and audio preservation in general. The navigation menu to the left can be used to browse these topics and more.
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Thank you for visiting and happy digging!
| LP Cover and Inner Sleeve Scans |
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October 11, 2011
A collection of LP cover and inner sleeve scans was recently donated to us by Tom Fine. The scans contain some great pictures, discographical information, and a lot of info about early stereo records.
Check out the scans here. Thanks Tom!
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Are you a Texas musician or Texas music lover?
Find out more about the Texas Music Project and how you can help us preserve and share the music of the Lone Star State.
Read more here.
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| Recent Donation to Thomas Edison National Historic Park |
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December 15, 2010 - West Orange, NJ
The Audio Preservation Fund donated nine Edison cylinder recordings to the Thomas Edison National Historic Park on December 15, 2010. The Edison National Historic Park is part of the National Park Service and is located at Edison's laboratory complex in West Orange, NJ. It contains one of the largest Edison recordings archives in the world. It also contains thousands of Edison artifacts, including the first tin-foil phonograph. We are honored to expand such a prestigious archive and look forward to working with the Park in the future!
Pictured is APF Chair, William Vanden Dries, presenting the donation to the archive's curator, Jerry Fabris.
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| Volunteer Shaun Stalzer cataloging albums at the Texas Music Museum with William Vanden Dries |
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July 10, 2010 - Austin, TX
Shaun Stalzer, a volunteer for the Audio Preservation Fund, contributes his time cataloging the recordings at the Texas Music Museum. Cataloging archives' inventory helps APF know which recordings they already own and which recordings we need to help them acquire.
To learn more about volunteering with the Audio Preservation Fund, please Contact us.
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| Recent donation to the Center For Texas Music History / Wittliff Collections |
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February 24, 2010 - San Marcos, TX
The Audio Preservation Fund made a donation of 9 recordings to Texas State University's Center For Texas Music History, which houses its music archives in the Wittliff Collections. Pictured is APF Chair, William Vanden Dries, presenting the donation to the archive's Steve Davis and Dr. Gary Hartman.
The pictured album, Jerry Jeff Walker's ¡Viva Terlingua!, was recently featured in the Center's publication The Journal of Texas Music History. Also donated were recordings by Willie Nelson, Ditto, King & Cochran, and Egon & The Search for Saturnalia.
View more details about this donation in the Preserved Recordings section of the website.
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| New Way To Support APF! |
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APF & Tokens For Bags at Austin's Buffalo Exchange
From July through December, 2011, when shopping at Buffalo Exchange's Austin location you'll have the opportunity to support APF! APF was chosen as one of the three charitable organizaitons to participate in BX's Tokens for Bags program.
Here's how it works - when you check out, the cashier will ask you if you would like to take a token or a bag for your purchase. If you take a token, you can place it in APF's box on your way out and Buffalo Exchange will donate funds to help the organization. Yep - it's that easy!
The Buffalo Exchange in Austin is located at 2904 Guadalupe Street. So next time you go clothes shopping, save a bag from the landfill and help out APF at the same time!
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