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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:00 am 
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Newly unveiled 1878 audio on Edison invention features world’s first recorded music, blooper
By Associated Press, Friday, October 26, 1:10 PM

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — It’s scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world’s first recorded blooper.

The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice and the first-ever capturing of a musical performance, thanks to digital advances that allowed the sound to be transferred from flimsy tinfoil to computer.

The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

At a time when music lovers can carry thousands of digital songs on a player the size of a pack of gum, Edison’s tinfoil playback seems prehistoric. But that dinosaur opens a key window into the development of recorded sound.

“In the history of recorded sound that’s still playable, this is about as far back as we can go,” said John Schneiter, a trustee at the Museum of Innovation and Science in Schenectady, where it was played Thursday night in the city where Edison helped found the General Electric Co.

The recording opens with a 23-second cornet solo of an unidentified song, followed by a man’s voice reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Old Mother Hubbard.” The man laughs at two spots during the recording, including at the end, when he recites the wrong words in the second nursery rhyme.

“Look at me; I don’t know the song,” he says.

When the recording was played using modern technology during a presentation Thursday at a nearby theater, it was likely the first time it had been played at a public event since it was created during an Edison phonograph demonstration held June 22, 1878, in St. Louis, museum officials said.

The recording was made on a sheet of tinfoil, 5 inches wide by 15 inches long, placed on the cylinder of the phonograph Edison invented in 1877 and began selling the following year.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:03 am 
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First recording by Thomas Edison discovered by historians


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It's kind of amazing that the recording still exists and we are among the first people, in over 130 years, that get a chance to hear it.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:35 am 
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Yes it's amazing. And the blooper is cute.

I love the cornet which is what I played (very poorly) in HS. Actually I switched between trumpet and cornet.


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Cool Packy...

I played the flute (so-so) in HS. I tried a band members Piccolo, but it was much harder.

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Cute little flute player.

Yeah I would think the piccolo would be harder. I never could do reed instruments but luckily had enough air and tongue to do the brass.


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Image I doubt I'd have the lung power for the trumpet or coronet! No comment on the tongue. :12

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