Earliest recorded music

[MindMover]

The first ever audio recording we know of was made by Éduoard-Léon Scott in 1857. As Maggie has previously posted here, the recording device he invented, the phonautograph, etched sound waves to paper. They weren't intended to be "played back" and it wasn't until 2008 when researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used a scanner and "virtual stylus" to listen to the sounds inscribed on the paper. It was a recording of a tuning fork and someone, likely Scott, singing Au Clair de la Lune.

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/09/earliest-recorded-music.html?

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We have come a long way baby.......from this to the iphone.....and Edison was not the first to record sound....

[Richardo]

1. Amazing

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Wasn't there an earlier one of those?

Someone told me they found a glass cylinder in a box, that had soot on it, and lines made by a stylus, recording Chopin playing the piano. He died in 1849. Is this true?

[MindMover]

4. Well, there probably is a glass cylinder recording of Chopin played by someone other than Chopin...

since the first glass cylinder was invented in 1856....

http://members.tripod.com/~Edison_1/id14.html

[dipsydoodle]

3. You can do something similar

with piece of paper and a comb.

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Fuckin' A.

Nice link. Thanks!