Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville - Au Clair De La Lune download free

Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville Nursery Rhymes 1860 US

Genre:	Children
Performer:	Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville
Title:	Au Clair De La Lune
Style:	Nursery Rhymes
Date of release:	1860
Country:	US
MP3 album size:	1422 mb
FLAC APE album size:	1917 mb
WMA album size:	1232 mb
Digital formats:	APE AAC RA VQF MPC AA DXD

Tracklist

Au Clair De La Lune

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Credits

Engineer [Uncredited] – Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville
Vocals [Uncredited] – Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville
Written-By [Uncredited] – Traditional

Notes

This is the earliest intelligible recording of the human voice: an historic 20-second version of "Au clair de la lune" made in April 9, 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph.

Léon Scott patented his own invention (n°31470) under the name "phonautographe" on March 25, 1857.
The scientific principles of "phonautographie" was sent under sealed letter to Académie des Sciences on January 26, 1857 as an evidence of his invention.

Conceived as a stenographic device, the "phonautographe" recorded sound through a horn that focused the sound waves onto a membrane to which a wild boar's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move and enabling it to inscribe the sound onto a lamp-blackened glass plate, later replaced by a lamp-blackened paper mounted on a drum or cylinder.

This device was not meant to, and could not play back recorded sound. It simply traced a visual representation of the sound waves that hit the bristle. It was not until 2008 that researches were able to re-create the sound waves that would have been used to trace the pattern in the soot.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
PT-1001	Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville	Au Clair De La Lune ‎(7", S/Sided, Etch, Ltd)	Parlortone	PT-1001	US	2009

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It's gritty and very lo-fi but it is also hauntingly beautiful. Given the conditions it was recording under all that can be forgiven. You can almost smell the lamp soot during the fleeting seconds of this historic recording. Even more interesting is that this recording was made using a format that could not even be played back until the 20th century. It truly is a time capsule of sorts filled with the dusty sound from a bygone era. I had never heard of Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville until this recording surfaced but now that I have I will have to check out more phonautograph's.