A shout?  I don't doubt it; but I remember more like a lot of just
conversational sounds.

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From: "Marty Pickands" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: earliest audio recordings NOT made by Edison


> 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...
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Skiles" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:54 AM
> Subject: earliest audio recordings NOT made by Edison
>
>
> Researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented
phonograph
> ...
> WASHINGTON - The muffled sounds from more than 150 years ago resemble the
> "wa wa" of the unseen teacher in the Peanuts cartoons. It would be
> impossible to know that someone was playing the coronet and guitar,
although
> other fragments, from a dramatic speech from Shakespeare's Othello, might
be
> discerned if you knew the lines by heart in French.
>
> Yet these sound bites and other snippets, unveiled May 29 by historians at
> the annual meeting of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, are
> the earliest known recordings. A bunch of wavy lines scratched by a stylus
> onto fragile paper that had been blackened by the soot from an oil lamp
date
> from 1857. That's 20 years before Edison invented the phonograph ...
(story
> continues ... with lovely images ... at link below):
>
>
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44267/title/Earliest_known_sound_recordings_revealed