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Uploaded on Apr 6, 2008

This is the first sound ever recorded, by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, in 1860, before Edison's wax cylinder experiments. Ironically, the "phonautograph" was designed only to record sounds, not to play them back.

The 10 seconds ghostly voice is a woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune".


via NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/art...

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  • Uncle Nyombi ♡'s you

    Uncle Nyombi ♡'s you 3 months ago

    Still listening to this in 2013

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  • jannomo

    jannomo 3 months ago

    not. creepy. at. all. :)

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  • CompTechGamers

    CompTechGamers 14 hours ago

    You mean GHAST? (Fun Fact: The Man Who Made all the Tunes on minecraft's cat made the ghast noises!)

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    CompTechGamers 14 hours ago

    300PM?!?!?!?! ARE YOU ON ANOTHER PLANET???

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    CompTechGamers 14 hours ago

    They didnt exist back then

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  • 1gaaastooon1

    1gaaastooon1 1 day ago

    oh come on, you don't need to be a posser.

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  • anthcd20

    anthcd20 3 days ago

    Whoa! Thats WAY better than jb

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  • PuppyDogVids

    PuppyDogVids 3 days ago

    Sounds like Justin Bieber to me. :)

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  • mansonfever

    mansonfever 4 days ago

    where do you find this?

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  • fisteecuffs

    fisteecuffs 5 days ago

    I'm only 12...all my friends like Justin Bieber but this is real music.

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