This is another one covered by Mythbusters, and they busted it.  They
were unable to get the pot to record any sound at all.

Iain

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May
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Subject: Re: earliest audio recordings NOT made by Edison

Interesting you should mention this, as a very old publication on a  
collecting expedition to Indonesia reported traditional "singing pots"
that had  
been in the possession of some families for generations. I always
thought it 
was  legend, but I suppose some sort of scratched design might actually 
transmit  sound in certain wind conditions?
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
 
 
In a message dated 6/1/2009 11:40:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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Yes- I  remember that talking pot, too, from an article I read during my

first year as  a grad student. I could never remember the source, and
was 
always suspicious  that it was wishful thinking by the researcher. They
claimed 
to have a  recorded a shout, but maybe scratches on a pot just sound
like 
shouts- who  would ever know?

Marty Pickands
New York State  Museum
>>> Susan Walter <[log in to unmask]> 06/01/09 12:29 PM  >>>
This is really neat!  Literal VOICES from the  past.
Decades ago in one of the San Diego museums in Balboa Park, there was
the
neatest display and recording...an ancient pot, while being made on  a
potter's wheel, had apparently also recorded voices...I think it was in
the
Aerospace Museum for an exhibit on technology.  I was distracted  at the

time
as a chaperone for 30 some odd children on a field trip, but  always
thought
that those sounds were so magnificent...