The Society for Historic Sound Carriers (GHT), founded in November 2002 in Vienna, is a non-profit association, open to members from across the globe. It aims to protect and preserve soundcarriers dating from the early recording period (cylinders, shellac discs and vinyl records) to document data and content in line with scientific standards, to archive and to facilitate access. Basically, our goal is to promote the awareness of this topic within society and initiate and support relevant activities.
With your membership you support those goals and the interdisciplinary work carried out by GHT.
Focus areas
- Active international network of discographers and record collectors
- coordination and implementation of international research projects
- education and through specialist lectures and related public events such as workshops and excursions
- Annual international conference „Discographer’s day“ (Diskographentag)
- publishing of print media: „rundschrift“ and „Contributions to the history of the record industry“
- development and compilation of discographies
- web database for discographic data and sounds (GHT-BaseWEB)
- GHT archive in Vienna:
- currently more than 19,000 shellac discs und cylinders from collection Alfred Seiser and many other donators
- additional GHT services:
- professional digitalization and re-recording of historic sound carriers according international standards
- consulting on discography, record archiving and documentation
- Cooperation with