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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2008/03

From: Mike Benthin -MUTS oboe support <benthin@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] phonautogram-1860- first music ever recorded!
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:38:34 -0400

17 years before Edison "invented" it, the 15 year old daughter of
Edouard-Leon Scott was recorded singing, done via a phonautograph,
basically an arm needle vibrating via a sound pickup membrane onto a
paper cylinder coated with lamp black carbon. In 2007 it was reproduced
into sound via computers. Scott first applied for French patents in 1857.
http://www.firstsounds.org/press/032708/index.php

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