Oldest Known Recording Of A Human Voice
US 1860 Recording never previously played back 10/07/24On April 9th 1860, a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville nvented sound recording via his phonautograph. The recording here was taken in 1960 and was not previously played back until being discovered very recently. His device came 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph, and the recording features a man singing 'Clair De Lune'. Luckily, there was a tuning fork played which enabled the playback to be pitched corrected.
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