Centuries of sound

 

How it sounded in the past, before our new ways to record?

That's one of the purpose of the blog "Centuries of sound" 

An interresting serie of mixes created with sound material from the past from 1859 to 1895 (work in progress along this year which will be continued in the future... we wait for!).

"The story you may have heard about the birth of sound recording goes something like this; Thomas Edison, alone in the lab after a hard day’s work, manages to record a recital of “Mary Had A Little Lamb” onto a wax cylinder. You may have even think you have heard the recording, but you haven’t. The recording in circulation comes from a 1927 recreation for the Golden Jubilee of the Phonograph ceremony, the original being lost on a sheet of re-usable tinfoil fifty years earlier.
But it really doesn’t matter. The real start date for us is seventeen years earlier than that, on the 6th of April 1860, when French printer and bookseller Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville decided to add a tuning fork to his experiments with recording the acoustic properties of the human voice."
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Here is the 1893's mix with some popular tunes of this year