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Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: First known recording of human voice (9-4-1860) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:25:13 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <877ch5rdqe.fsf@parhasard.net> References: <uv4uqp$n9u8$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7KusYpkXymn5S69qyRliOwBXSFeYHC2QIs3KSstmbyYJSsDH1U Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rmm1fcgbHVUg8neJ3nDV7lnogOs= sha1:AzdbqK929GLtRvKQbesfIwW++Zo= sha256:8t1BrVZxRfhT5lSRnzs1mpNOgDNADj84YkloyT3K1I0= User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b35 (Linux-aarch64) Bytes: 1880 Ar an deichiú lá de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark: > Recorded on the Phonautograph, an invention of Édouard-Léon Scott de > Martinville (Frenchman of Scottish ancestry). > The device used a boar's bristle attached to a vibrating membrane. It scribed > its vibrations onto a surface coated with lampblack. > Scott de Martinville hoped to invent a playback mechanism, but never > did. Fortunately a few of his recordings survived, and in 2008 some smart > fellas in California managed to get a voice from the tracings: probably Scott > de Martinville himself singing (very slowly) the first few notes of "Au clair > de la lune". Subjectively recorded media have slowed regional sound change and perhaps even reversed local innovations, but I’m not sure how to study cause and effect. The usual dialect archives do tend to demonstrate more pronounced local features in the 1950s, which gives effect, but cause is the harder bit. -- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out / How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’ (C. Moore)