phonautograph........(right out of Pynchon's world)

[Mark Kohut]

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   Isabelle Trocheris
  The audio historian David Giovannoni with a recently discovered phonautogram that is among the earliest sound recordings. 

  Audio: 1860 recording:              mm.DI = true;    mm.LI = false;    mm.AH = "The Phonautograph Recording from 1860 of 'Au Clair de la Lune'";    mm.AS = "";    mm.AD = "10";    mm.AU = "http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1860v2.mp3";    mm.IU = "";    writePlayer();          The Phonautograph Recording from 1860 of 'Au Clair de la Lune' (mp3)     


























   var so = new SWFObject("http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/multimedia/swfs/multiloader.swf", "p21261", "100%", "25", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("mp3","http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1860v2.mp3") so.addVariable("duration","10") so.addVariable("contentPath","http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/multimedia/INLINE_PLAYER/NYTInline.swf") so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always"); so.write("p21261");   1931:              mm.DI = true;    mm.LI = false;    mm.AH = "An  Audio Excerpt from a 1931 Recording of the Same Song";    mm.AS = "";    mm.AD = "26";    mm.AU = "http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1931.mp3";    mm.IU = "";    writePlayer();          An Audio Excerpt from a 1931 Recording of the Same Song (mp3)     


























   var so = new SWFObject("http://www.nytimes.com/packages/flash/multimedia/swfs/multiloader.swf", "p175904", "100%", "25", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("mp3","http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1931.mp3") so.addVariable("duration","26") so.addVariable("contentPath","http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/multimedia/INLINE_PLAYER/NYTInline.swf") so.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "always"); so.write("p175904");       Related Topic Pages:
    
   Thomas A. Edison   
   Audio Recordings


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   Courtesy of David Giovannoni
  The 19th-century phonautograph, which captured sounds visually but did not play them back, has yielded a discovery with help from modern technology. 


       
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