1888 piano recording - unknown performers and miss eyre

[EmmetEarwax]

Gouraud app. never sang or played an insttument. All he did was make windy speeches.

[Musicolette]

....and to think that all music ever performed more than a few years before this recording was made, is now imprisoned in the history of silence!

[RiaRadioFMHD773]

Gouraud was Thomas Edisons associate responsible for recording the earliest surviving wax cylinders of music in The Crystal Palace in the summer of 1888.

[ferociousgumby]

People must have been amazed by this.

[otterhouse]

@ferociousgumby I think they would have been more amazed to hear you have been listening to them on a "website" in the year 2011... :-)

[PianoKid1997]

i just simply love the sound of older music, specially from piano, you dont hear this today and it sucks that alot of it isnt even talked much about. but hey thats why we should bring them back to life and this recording has defiinatley brought me back in time.

[bluefukingreene]

as a musician for 25 years i am moved by these early recordings...

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for uploading this historical recording!

[liszt141]

OMG! 1888! To think less than one year from hearing Alkan, and less than 2 from Liszt. We are very lucky to have Brahms!

[karlsalz]

oh tanks alot

yeah the first sound recording with the phonautograph is very creepy because its an unusual date for sound recording :s

[NewDisneySucksHard]

awesome

[RobinPratt]

Excellent!

[SuperTechFreak]

Are these on white wax (yellow paraffin) cylinders?

[karlsalz]

had the phonograph in 1888 already have a motor? the wired object looks like a battery for the motor. was this actually a battery?

[edisonphonographfan]

@karlsalz

yes they ran off of batteries much differant than today these contiuned to be made into the 1890s rarely later i would love to have on i am a phonograph collector but there so rare i cant dream of getting one

have you looked of the phonautograph? first sound in 1860 quite creepy

[m134mr]

fantastic! I collect cylinders and phonograph record, listening to these recordings from 1888, they was doing something right back then :)

[hallowedbeeddie]

listening to something over 110 years old brings tears to my eyes, and specially when it is great music

[lamalo80]

Uit het jaar dat Duitsland drie keizers had. Prachtig toch dat we nog geluid uit die verre periode terug hebben.

[Andrew1732]

Chopin would be 78 years old if he hadn't died so early. I'd give anything to hear him playing his first ballade =)

[wks1978]

How do you know these recordings date from 1888?

[ferociousgumby]

Is someone having a fist fight in the background?

[bassmajor]

God these old recordings have such a magic about them... listening to someone who was recorded over 100 years ago is simply amazing! It's like traveling back in time

[AmericanCars101]

OH MY! if liszt lived for another 2 or 3 more years they could have recorded him!!

[PrincessZelda613]

For the age of the recordings, they both are of good quality, even the Miss Eyre recording. Compare these to the quality of the 1878 Frank Lambert talking clock lead cylinder, for example. Outside of Lambert calling out the hours betwixt "Four O'Clock" and "Twelve O'Clock", it is difficult to decipher what is being said. It's amazing that kids today have a low tolerance for imperfect sound quality. Personally, as long as I can hear the recording, the sound is of good enough quality for me.

[uranrising]

I agree. If you can get thru the noise to the performance and make it out, I, too, can ignore the poor sound quality.

[pianopera]

Bedankt voor het zenden, Rolf!

Ik ben het wel met d60944's kritiek eens, deze dame is niet bijzonder interessant om naar te luisteren, maar ze heeft een "fatsoenlijke" vingertechniek ;-)

Op zo'n 19e eeuws lichter spelend instrument (ik neem even aan dat het een vleugel is en geen piano) moet het repeteren wel makkelijker gegaan zijn dan op veel moderne vleugels - op de een of andere manier mankeert er vaak iets aan het mechaniek waardoor e.e.a. niet makkelijk zo gaat...groeten,

E.

[d60944]

Oooh I see my name, but don't know why.....!

[pianopera]

Just to say in Dutch that I agreed with your words below! ;-)

[d60944]

I had not heard these before. This Miss Eyre does sound like the same person as in the recording I posted. She seems to have had a decent technique -but here again she is still astoundingly foursquare, earthbound and dull in interpretation though. Lovely to hear this - and how the nice new (?) 19thC piano coped with and produced the repeated notes. Thanks.

[ourvinylcollection]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting!!!