First Sounds: hear recordings from 150 years ago!

[mae]

So you might have noticed I'm running this music tournament over in The Forge and music is a big passion of mine (as are books and movies). I love all genres of music, regardless of age. So in my recent personal research on older music (pre-classical), I stumbled on this site: http://www.firstsounds.org/ Really mind-blowing stuff! We've all seen those late 19th century silent clips of crude movie scenes and thought they must be the earliest recorded moments of our world history, but now there are these tiny haunting sound recordings, too. And they come from as early as the 1850s!

This is fascinating stuff:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwjejN3sYNc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRY3Se-Rl48


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RQ87PFk95A


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0updTOFxY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7grFoSmyQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMw6ci3fU0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA9q6fU6oJk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvT_KZIgILk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye0RHqIN78M


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW3RUfVvTHs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3MG1Q8b8kc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmMZ0DEuvo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLXbb1GNAxc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uW7qyCp0Sk

[Tommy]

This is very cool pablo, I will have to finish it up later on. Fascinating stuff!

[Jon]

Ugh...spoiler tags...I will try later. Thank you, pablo.

[Ben Staad]

Interesting lecture and study. Thank you for posting.

[Jon]

Interesting lecture and study. Thank you for posting.



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