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1860 oldest recorded sound here.

Postby Viewmaster » Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:28 pm

Pre Edison oldest recorded sound in 1860 ...you can hear it on this site and see a photo of it

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/sounds_of_ghost.php

I wonder how they played it back in 1860? Well they didn't!

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Postby Andrew Davie » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:55 pm

Viewmaster wrote:Pre Edison oldest recorded sound in 1860 ...you can hear it on this site and see a photo of it

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/sounds_of_ghost.php

I wonder how they played it back in 1860? Well they didn't!

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Thanks for posting this. Quite awesome. A bit like the 1933 television recordings; echoes of ghosts from the past.
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Postby Stephen » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:13 am

This is fascinating! I have read about such recordings but neither seen nor heard them. Thanks, Albert.
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Postby Viewmaster » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:41 am

Here's the details of the Frenchman, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville,
who recorded it AND a photo of his recorder!
He had a cylinder etc. he called it phonautograph. How cute.
Maybe Edison copied the cylinder idea, nearly 20 years later?

Martinville was a bookseller/librarian so using paper to record on seems a natural step for him to take.

Sheer magic.

But what a tragedy that he had no means to replay it.....then maybe he is up there somewhere listening, at last, to his magnificent accomplishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Scott

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Postby Andrew Davie » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:23 am

Viewmaster wrote:Pre Edison oldest recorded sound in 1860 ...you can hear it on this site and see a photo of it

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/03/sounds_of_ghost.php

I wonder how they played it back in 1860? Well they didn't!

Albert.


It is rumoured that Abraham Lincoln was recorded on one of these phonoautographs. Further rumours suggest it might be stored in the white house library. Imagine hearing Lincoln after all these years. Now that would be something special (unless it was "testing... one... two... three... is this thing on?")
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