The Finnish National Sound Archive
National Library
The Music Recording Collection
Collection materials in format
Sound recording
Analogue
Digital
Digitised
The Music Recording Collection contains most Finnish music recordings published since 1901.
Collection description
The Music Recording Collection contains most Finnish music recordings published since 1901. The collection also has some unique recording archives, such as the recording archives of Jaakko Salo and Tauno Hannikainen. You can study the digital copies of the recordings in the Music Library's listening room.
Collection languages
Material type
archives
electronic material (born-digital)
music recordings
online materials
Accrual status
Continuous
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern times (1900-)Spatial coverage of the collection
FinlandMain collection
The Finnish National Sound ArchiveParent collection
The Finnish National Sound ArchiveSubcollections
Online sound recordings The recording archive of Tauno Hannikainen Finnish recording publications The recording archive of Jaakko Salo The tape archive by Warner Music Finland Advertisement recordings L-G Nordström's jazz collection Foreign recording publicationsRestrictions of use
Only for Listening room Only for reading rooms Digitised on legal deposit terminals Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publicationCollection themes
Collection sizes
110000
titles of publications
More info
Finnish Broadcasting Company's Fono database: http://www.fono.fi
Acquisition policy
Mostly legal deposit copies, also procurements and donations