Volta Recordings 1881

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Volta Recordings 1881

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Interesting piece on the earliest rescued modern phonographic recordings from Volta Labs (A.G. Bell et al.), beginning in 1881.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/a ... ca/251743/

Links from the article:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/pres ... wskey=1442
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BwTVblXk4

The YT page gives access to all six recordings recovered to date.

I think I or someone posted a while back about Scott de Martinville's French phongram recordings (ca. 1860) from FirstSounds.

http://firstsounds.org/
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Re: Volta Recordings 1881

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very interesting!


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