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Yes, this is a pre-Edison featured sound. I bet no-one was expecting that! This was not originally intended as a recording. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created his device as a sort of early oscillograph, but in the last few months, it has been discovered that it is possible to play them back anyway. The press release revealing this surprising turn of events came out in March.


It also forces me to apologise for WP:Featured sound candidates/Israel In Egypt. While I had reliable sources saying it was the earliest known surviving music, well, that's the trouble with that word "known". While Israel in Egypt remains the earliest surviving phonograph cylinder recording of music - and the earliest surviving intentional recording of music, if someone feels this new discovery should replace it, do open a delist nomination. I think it still has merit as a featured sound, but I'll argue the case there, not in a different nom.

So, again, I apologise for not being fully up to date, and I hope you'll enjoy the surprise of a pre-Edison sound file as much as I did. Thanks to User:Rama for pointing me to this. More information is available at [1].



Promoted Au Clair de la Lune (1860).ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]