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Subject: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Peter T. Date: 07 Jun 09 - 11:50 AM This is the web site where you can hear the earliest recorded sound (and song). This is 1860, twenty years before Edison -- reconstituted from a kind of mapping of sound. There was some press about it in 2008 -- "Au Clair de La Lune" is the first song, just a single line fragment. The original re-release was too fast, and the most recent re-release has slowed it down somewhat: http://firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Rapparee Date: 07 Jun 09 - 12:15 PM Yes, I heard it on NPR the other day. They have recorded voice from 1857 but it's nearly impossible to determine what is being said because the recorder was hand cranked. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Ebbie Date: 07 Jun 09 - 03:56 PM Fascinating. It's a window back into time. How come we accept that Edison was the first? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: robomatic Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:01 PM Edison was the first with something repeatable and workable, and it actually output sound. This earlier technology was more of a lab experiment. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Ebbie Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:13 PM Yes, robo, but technology results from experiments. I should think that school children would be taught about earlier approaches. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Peter T. Date: 07 Jun 09 - 04:46 PM America did everything first (just ask the Russians, who play the same game). Automobiles (no). Light bulbs (no). (one could go on....) yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: GUEST,Lighter Date: 07 Jun 09 - 05:13 PM Wow! And his version of "Au Claire de la Lune" sounds modal too! A first? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: kendall Date: 08 Jun 09 - 07:22 AM RADAR the Chronometer telephone raincoat rubber tires The industrial revolution Penicillin radio (Marconi) Dynamite gun powder Pizza The list is endless |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: kendall Date: 08 Jun 09 - 07:34 AM Cats eyes Depth charges crossword puzzles cordite cork screws disk brakes light bulbs the locomotive fax machine the periodic table the periscope polyester rubber bands jet engines lawn mower seismometer sewing machine shrapnel TV thermos toilet paper vacuum cleaner Viagra Enough |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Geoff the Duck Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:08 AM Hi Kendall, Cats Eyes invented by a bloke named Percy Shaw, lived other side of a big hill near where I grew up. Story goes that he was driving on the road up the side of the hill - narrow road, steep drop down one side to valley below, no street lighting - pretty dangerous really. Still a bit hairy today on an icy evening. Anyway. Story goes, he was driving up the road one night, taking great care to stay on the road and not plummet down the hill, when a cat crossed his path. He could see the light from his headlights reflected by the eye of the cat shining bright in the darkness. That gave him the idea for the reflecting road studs. They reckon that if the cat had been facing the other way round he would have invented the pencil sharpener... Quack! GtD. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Paul Burke Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:38 PM Sex. But back to the question. Some Belgian archaeologists are on line as having claimed that ancient pottery from Pompeii had the ambient sound in the workshop where it was being made imprinted on it by the stylus used to mark decorations on it. That would make the earliest recordings 2000 years old or so. Do we believe them? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: kendall Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:44 PM No. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: katlaughing Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:29 PM Fascinating, Peter, esp. the tuning fork one...it is so clear! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: frogprince Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:46 PM Not a contender for teh earliest, but Tom Russell has an interesting recording of Walt Whitman on the album "The Man From God Knows Where". Whitman died in 1892. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: RangerSteve Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:03 PM I heard what was reputed to be the first recording ever made, sometime in the 1850's, it was a glass rod with one groove running the length of the rod, and was supposed to be of Chopin. The radio host, who played a copy of the original, had all kinds of historical facts to show that it couldn't be authentic. And soundwise, it was terrible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 09 Jun 09 - 01:16 AM It is my belief that every component of the existing universe...records ALL events that were ever within its audio vibration range.
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Paul Burke Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:21 AM It's not the recording of the sound, it's getting it back again. In fact, if we knew where to look, every sound that has ever been made is recorded, in four channel 192kHz sampling digital recording, within the digits of pi. So is everything else that exists, and everything that doesn't exist too- if only we knew where to look! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: GUEST,hg Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:10 PM PB and gargoyle....very fascinating ideas! Where to read more about such things for an interesting thinking session? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: semi-submersible Date: 10 Jun 09 - 02:47 AM Just close your eyes and listen. Ommmm... (I'm picking up good vibrations.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: M.Ted Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:12 AM Of course, those very stones from the Sea of Galilee also picked up 2000 years worth chatter from the women washing and the fishermen fishing, as well as conversations from waves of Roman,Byzantine, and Ottoman soldiers, not to mention all that chatter from the Kibbutzim. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Jack Campin Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:37 AM Chopin died in 1849 so a recording of him from the 1850s would be rather quiet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:55 PM Kendall - penicillin? I thought that was Sir Alexander Fleming... Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Rowan Date: 10 Jun 09 - 06:56 PM Kendall - penicillin? I thought that was Sir Alexander Fleming... Even better, try looking Florey up. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Donuel Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:21 PM The static you hear between AM stations is the EM remnants of the big bang. The earliest song I have is Debussy playing piano originally recorded on wire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: frogprince Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:18 PM Didn't he have a hard time keeping the piano and stool balanced? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Stringsinger Date: 11 Jun 09 - 10:44 AM "those who surf the net deserve all the disinformation they get".... Tom Lehrer. "Mr. Watson, come in here!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: frogprince Date: 11 Jun 09 - 01:13 PM What if, when they retrieve the sound from those rocks in Galilee, it turns out that the guy in "Life of Brian" was right, and he really said "Blessed are the Cheezemakers".... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: RangerSteve Date: 11 Jun 09 - 04:32 PM Jack Campin - Maybe is was the 1840's, then. I'm remembering something I heard on the radio about 20 years ago. I probably remembered the date wrong. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Earliest recorded sound and song From: Rifleman (inactive) Date: 11 Jun 09 - 04:46 PM .....How come we accept that Edison was the first? Because that's what Edison wanted, he was totally ruthless in business |
