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[IncognitoHFX]

A conference of audio recording experts is unveiling today in California the 1860 audio recording done by French inventor E.L. Scott de Martinville of the song 'Au Claire de la Lune' which predates the Thomas Alva Edison recording of 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' by 17 years.

This video captures that original 1860 recording which became available on the Internet just hours ago. Pictured is the 'phonoautograph' invented by Frenchman Scott de Martinville, with the recording edited in sequence to a 1931 recording of an excerpt of Claire De Lune for comparison. The oldest recording runs some 11 seconds so is presented in this video 3 times for better appreciation. Credit for this historic feat of finding, and sharing the first ever recording with the world properly goes to the audio experts initiative firstsounds.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6_M6BkUM8&eurl=http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-rnIaCAEzbryqe7W2AYVmtBzQoCtUm72gxQ--?cq=1&p=728

Neat stuff. Sounds kind of troubling, but what do you expect?

[hanguker]

Edison was a hack!

[nobbyken]

From MSN yesterday:

'Meltdown' after newsreader's fit of the giggles

BBC Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green's famously steadfast composure on the Today programme deserted her today as she dissolved in a fit of giggles live on air while reading an obituary - sending the press office into meltdown.

She lost control after playing a clip of the oldest known recording of the human voice.

Presenter James Naughtie intervened as she struggled to tell listeners about the death of screenwriter Abby Mann.

"I'm afraid I just lost it, I was completely ambushed by the giggles," said Green.

She admitted a similar giggling fit besieged her about 10 years ago, also on the Today programme.

"I did feel slightly embarrassed, knowing I have this reputation that I am prone to getting the giggles," she said.

"People have been very sweet and everyone has been coming up to me said how much it has cheered up their Friday morning."

Today's editor, Ceri Thomas, said most listeners who contacted the show had commented on "how much they had enjoyed the moment".

He added: "When Charlotte loses it, she really loses it."

Green's hysterical outburst started after a studio member remarked that the recording of a woman singing the French song Clair de Lune, made in 1860, played, sounded like a "bee buzzing in a bottle".

Later on in the programme Green's fit of the giggles was repeated as presenter Ed Stourton remarked they had been besieged with calls begging them to play it again.

"Apparently the BBC press office is in meltdown with calls about it," he said.

"We hope that the family of Abby Mann will understand that it obviously wasn't intended as any slight towards him."

[Zutronius]

Neat!!!

[bassexpander]

Here's an old recording circa 1905 from Edison's machine. It's in English, and it's sort of funny about 3/4 of the way through when he starts talking about seeing his friend "Bug" with a "hired gal."

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=_i1YRRDJbpg&feature=related

[bassexpander]

This one is a song: Feed the Kitty.

Kind of cute.

By the way, I saw one of these things for sale in the Jungno area a few weeks ago.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=j8htITKV0FA&feature=related

[Cheonmunka]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonautograph#The_phonautograph

Paper or glass blackened by a [candle?] lamp engraved with a pig's bristle. Wow.

What amazes me me is how a 'group of American historians' found it.