Hi Melissa,
I thought while Elizabeth is researching your question, you might find these articles helpful. This listing was compiled by the National Preservation Program Office, Library of Congress.
McWilliams, Jerry. The Preservation and Restoration of Sound Recordings. Nashville: The American Association for State and Local History, 1979
Lechleitner, Franz. “The Construction of Cylinder Replay Machines” in Archiving the Audio-Visual Heritage, Berlin: FIAF, 1988.
Gibson, Gerald. “Decay and Degradation of Disc and Cylinder Recordings in Storage”, in Audio Preservation: a planning study. Silver Spring, Maryland: Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 1987.
Frow, George L. and Albert F. Sefl. The Edison cylinder phonographs. Sevenoaks, Kent, England: George L. Frow, 1978.
Tammy Zavinski