Earliest recorded music [View all]

[MindMover]

The first ever audio recording we know of was made by Éduoard-Léon Scott in 1857. As Maggie has previously posted here, the recording device he invented, the phonautograph, etched sound waves to paper. They weren't intended to be "played back" and it wasn't until 2008 when researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used a scanner and "virtual stylus" to listen to the sounds inscribed on the paper. It was a recording of a tuning fork and someone, likely Scott, singing Au Clair de la Lune.

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/09/earliest-recorded-music.html?

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We have come a long way baby.......from this to the iphone.....and Edison was not the first to record sound....