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The Very First Recordings (1859-1879)

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:01 am
by audiophile102
This is a very interesting You Tube video that I had never seen until today so I thought it might interest members of the forum who may have missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0H8Q4QD-cM

Re: The Very First Recordings (1859-1879)

Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:38 pm
by Henry
My opinion: that's not a "coronet" [sic]; sounds like a man singing falsetto.
Grammatical note: possessive neuter third-person singular pronoun, "its" (no apostrophe). "It's" is a contraction for "it is."

Re: The Very First Recordings (1859-1879)

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:41 pm
by Wolfe
That was interesting. I hadn't heard that 1878 tinfoil of Edison before.

Re: The Very First Recordings (1859-1879)

Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:19 am
by donniej
David Giovannoni, Patrick Feaster and others spent several years studying the phonautograms and wrote a short book about it. They also have a website about such work... http://www.firstsounds.org/