according to the french newspaper liberation, here is the first recorded music ever:

http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/1860-Scott-Au-Clair-de-la-Lune.mp3

http://www.firstsounds.org/press/032708/index.php

Spooky it is.
J.Verne was 32 years old when this was recorded.

Wait, if you listening closely you can hear Win Pollard saying: "Beware the Motown giants..."

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Originally posted by UberDog:
Wait, if you listening closely you can hear Win Pollard saying: "Beware the Motown giants..."

(cue Barry White singing through a megaphone...)

I didn't know mosquitoes could sing, or were into Impressionism.

Heard it on NPR yesterday. Just barely distinguishable as a human voice. He beat Edison, but Edison had better fidelity.

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Originally posted by John Maddox Roberts:
Heard it on NPR yesterday. Just barely distinguishable as a human voice. He beat Edison, but Edison had better fidelity.

How fast was the first? How dense was Edison? Nostalgic wannabe cyberpunks wanna gno.

Note that this was the recording, but there was no playback device.

According to firstsounds, Edison used the same tech years later.

Man, Edison stole a bunch shit from everyone else, and browbeat anyone who had differing ideas that might also work. Nikola Tesla, anyone? The AC motor?

Dude surely was the Bill Gates of his day.