Working on next week's edition of Footlight Notes, I was reminded of Dan Nixon's interesting Web site, which is devoted to rare cylinder recordings. He has posted a number of these of once popular music hall artists, including Whit Cunliffe, Vesta Tilley, Billy Merson, Victoria Monks, Sam Mayo and the Florrie Forde. All are well worth listening to. Dan has also made useful links to the sites of several other cylinder enthusiasts, some of whom, like Tony Barker, Julian Myerscough, Bill Clark and Norman Bruderhofer, have issued many hitherto unavailable cylinder recordings on CD. The quality of these transfers is astonishingly good, particularly in view of the fact that most of the original material was cut more than eighty years ago.