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The Phonautograph: Hear Sound Recorded in 1860!

Retro Thing has a very cool blog post on the earliest known audio recording, one that predates even Edison. You can hear the hard-to-make-out-clearly recording for yourself in MP3 format as well!
http://www.retrothing.com/2008/03/the-phonoautogr.html


Mark Vergeer's picture

yeah like a ghost singing.....



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davyK's picture

The linked article lets you

The linked NY times article lets you compare it to a 1930's recording and you can then kind of hear the tune.

It sounds a bit creepy to me....


Mark Vergeer's picture

Erie!

Wow, hard if not impossible to make out and the pitch might be totally wrong but it is fantastic to hear someone sing from such a long time ago.


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