By the Smoke of an Oil Lamp? The First Audio Recording Found!
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 09:17AM A beautiful and eerie, here is what is believed to be the earliest - ever recording!!
Listen here and here !!
The song is "Au Clair de la Lune," recorded by Parisian inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville recorded on a "Phonautograph".This a device that engraved sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp! Hmm. I wonder if that would work better than Logic Pro 7....
More via physorg.com and The Guardian.
Update on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 09:23AM by
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As mentioned by Lauren a.k.a. The Laurel Tree:
via eastcliffrichard on YouTube:
"Normally straight-laced sounding Radio 4 presenter Charlotte Green can't keep a straight face after someone in the studio apparently whispers in her ear that the world's oldest sound recording sounds like 'a bee in a jar'. "
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...and BBC news reader giggles through obituary after hearing said recording here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7310000/newsid_7318200/7318249.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&nol_storyid=7318249&bbcws=1
Hi lovely Lauren!! yes we heard that as well...couldnt help but laugh myself, sorry to say...: ) Agh!