FIRST SOUNDS: Humanity's First Recordings of Its Own Voice

Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville was the first person to record his voice and send it into the future. David Giovannoni recounts how First Sounds discovered and played back these recordings 150 years later. Learn more at www.archeophone.com/catalogue... and firstsounds.org/research/scot.... For an updated account with additional recordings made between 1857 and 1860, check out • Humanity's First Recor... .

[@mementomori8791]

“...terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever”. We are living in this man’s nightmare.

[@lester8430]

lmao aliens are never going to come because of pop music

[@BlueSatoshi]

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard that. Dude had no idea just how on point he was.

[@axef]

Is this the earliest (audio) recorded joke in history?

[@jojobelo4830]

This makes me want to cry for some reason. The idea of being able to preserve a part of yourself for the future generations to discover makes me feel an emotion I can't quite understand.

[@normalopez3476]

Yes, I know what you mean. A voice from the past brings to life a person's voice. He mattered, was someone's son, husband, father or brother. He mattered. He lived & died. Time moves on... It's very emotional for me too. 😉

[@angelaesgate9962]

=equal

[@brenduck]

for me, it's the fact that this human's voice is coming from an era of time that i can't even imagine. it's reminiscent of how i think i might feel if aliens contacted us.

[@jeffreycoffey3761]

Me 2. I believe it because we want to live forever and carry out our dreams

[@someoneelse1441]

For people who want to revisit this video to hear samples (and if you didn't watch the video, seriously, do, it's time worth spent): 1:35 Oh Claire (wrong speed) 3:05 1888, chorus singing Handel's "Israel in Egypt" 4:00 1888, toast to Edison by Arthur Sullivan 7:28 1878, sounds of the railway, Edison 34:21 around 1860, opening lines of Aminta, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville 41:38 1860, Oh Claire (correct speed), Scott 42:54 1860, vocal scale, Scott 44:15 1860, "La Chanson de l'Abeille" from the comic opera La Reine Topaze by Victor Massé, Scott (I love how you hear him chuckle at one moment, like he realizes singing to a weird tube thing must look a little silly) 49:48 1857, major scale on a cornet, recorded by Scott

[@axef]

an extra timestamp: 21:16, a woman singing

[@DwightLivesMatter]

If school was like this when I attended, I would have payed attention and actually cared. A better teacher on KZbin for free than all combined in person for a price.

[@quintas66]

I'm listening to this while sitting in my house that was built in 1888. Kind of brings it all together.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

It's frightening how quickly machines have evolved since then, isn't it?

[@sourkyle]

it’s amazing to think that people back then were amazed, yet fearful for how their technology would impact the people of today.

[@SexyFace]

would you say their fears were irrational¿? personally I wouldnt

[@justyndelbridge7467]

The weirdest part of that toast is that it sounds so modern in some ways. You always look at old pictures and imagine them like a fairy tale universe, but they really were just normal people living their daily lives. And they had a sense of humor. Very cool.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That way - as a fairy tale - the past is mainly perceived by children. Once you're an adult for a noteworthy fraction of the known past, you begin to grasp how short and insignificant known history is, how lost you, as a human being, are in the cosmos.

[@chaser22081]

Why is this getting recommended to everyone now 6 years later

[@veryhairykrishna7225]

Took a while to gain traction or someone at KZbin thought it was interesting and said, you're going on trending.

[@pedropacheco5879]

The chorus at 3:05 sounds so chilling and sad at the same time

[@Trini84818]

It really is. It's like listening to ghosts, the voices of thousands of people who live and died in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

[@MattRingressi]

This deserves millions of views. Most fascinating.

[@Centa92]

"terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record for ever" - Athur Sullivan, 1888 Well said! :D

[@bbenjoe]

"He had no idea"...

[@Xundoshi]

He predicted the future.

[@markdp1983]

Arthur Sullivan (to Edison) - 5th October 1888 - "terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever".... Brilliant.. Clearly old Arthur could see what was in store for us with Modern Pop Music!

[@craigmatik]

It kind of connects us in a small way because there was always bad music and that quote puts the human condition in perspective through the ages.

[@jonathanstuart7354]

They thought music was bad then?

[@luancervantes6124]

finally, the algorithm does something right

[@xanderchanning]

Lucky. I had to search for this.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Also the algorithm used by Giovannoni to decipher that line on the sheet of paper from 1860...

[@mr.zimbel3164]

4:18 how right he was...

[@Ayartilery]

He was way ahead of his time! Lol. I thought the same thing. Its crazy how he articulated that.

[@DGioTuber]

I appreciate the remarks left by OthellZethus. He is correct -- a pirate has claimed ownership of something he does not own in order to receive the ad revenue. When I first uploaded this video I was notified it infringed on copyrighted materials. I thought it was a joke. I would be allowed to keep the video online, the notice read, if I agreed that the "copyright owner" could monetize it through ads. I did not agree. I responded with links proving the audio recording in question, the 1888 Crystal Palace cylinder heard around 3:00, is archived at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park and is most certainly in the public domain: www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/very-early-recorded-sound.htm My appeal was rejected without comment. I thought it better to leave the video up than take it down. I'm sure the actual pirates have made a few dollars from the ads, hopefully at great expense to their reputation. - David Giovannoni

[@baileymcmanus1816]

You're telling me someone tried to claim a 131 year old audio recording on copyright?

[@MatthewCobalt]

That Toast to Edison recording has to be one of the most modern things to say about music.

[@batmanneedssome200]

How has no one made this a meme

[@thepatlearyshow]

So Scott de Martinville, at the time, was not only the biggest recording artist in the world, he was the only recording artist in the world! Do you realize, his music debuted at number one on American Top 40 for years? I've been in on-air radio broadcasting for close to 50 years. I was holding back tears listening to this. Honest to goodness time travel. First Sounds have done a wonderful thing. I am in awe.

[@racheln8563]

The recording of the cornet is remarkably clear. Eerily so.

[@doggonemess1]

4:15 What an amazingly accurate prediction. If only he knew.

[@lazurm]

42:54 for the clearest voice, from 1860. 49:49 for the first recording of an air born sound, an instrument, from 1857.

[@CNCmachiningisfun]

Wonderful documentary! It is so sad that humanity's greatest minds are often lost to the darkness, while humanity's worst characters are permanently remembered.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

By tendency, the evil ones are better known during their lifetimes. They are not prone to experience a belated breakthrough, like so many geniuses.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Hearing ghostly voices from the distant past, is hauntingly scary, informative, and very thought provoking.

[@paulrussell1207]

Outside as he sang 'Clair de la lune' birds sang their songs, horse and carts clattered down streets, the whistle of a steam locomotives could be heard, and a few miles away horses toiled the fields of northern France, no cars on the roads or planes in the sky. As he sang children in clothes not recognizable to us today, skipped in glee home from school! Little did those children know as they hopped over horse manure on the cobbled streets that a man behind the walls of one house they skipped by, on the edge of Paris, was experimenting at that very moment, that he could put the sounds in his room, of his voice, in a portal through time... now as you sit in the modern world on fibre optic broadband perusing the infinite channels of the internet 160 years later, with planes and cars and computers and smart phones all invented since, in a world full with an overwhelming cacophony of noise and connectivity, you stumble upon the now digital incarnation of THAT voice, on THAT day, from THAT world, at the very beginning of it all - echoing through time. A man who was breaking the eternity of silence before him. Staring from the beginning of the funnel of sound, to the noise of now. Those children who skipped outside his house, their children, their grandchildren, even if they were lucky enough to live into old age, are long, long past. The American Civil War, Two World Wars, the Cold War, 32 American Presidents, 16 decades all gone by. Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, the entire cast and crew of the Wizard of Ozz, born after then and all since gone now too... It all went by and almost drowned out that first sound. But listen to this voice now, and connect that bridge in time. And fulfill this forward looking man's dream of communicating from then to you right now, you, the futuristic human he vaguely imagined on that early spring day in 1860 as he sang.

[@Jade_holloway]

Evocative writing, thanks!

[@ladymunch0]

that's beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[@mandychapin9411]

I feel as if I have just traveled through time while reading this. Well done my friend!

[@MsMatahari84]

All I can say is, you should go write a book and watch it become a bestseller. Wow! No pun intended.

[@voyagereternal11]

'...end terrified that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.' This man may have predicted our music genre from 200 years ago.

[@derekmyers3258]

It got a belly laugh out of me.

[@fcalvaresi]

On a funny tone this is proof that people from all era believe that music has gone bad. Nothing new here.

[@jennaolbermann7663]

I thought his comment was so amazingly accurate!

[@ronwilliams357]

This is more interesting than most Netflix documentaries.

[@Ayartilery]

Right!

[@booates]

wow this recording is really good quality... oh its just the intro

[@alexteoli3378]

I literally have shivers! His story needs to be told more. This needs to be made into a movie with three seperate timelines all linked. The first being from the 1850s recounting the trials and tribulations of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville as he tried to capture sound. The second being that of the 1870s/80s from the viewpoint of Thomas Edison and his invention as well as showcasing an older Édouard-Léon. The third going into the early 2000s as these audio historians trace back the first recordings and try to make sense of it all, jumping from one timeline to the next until it finally all comes together.

[@DGioTuber]

We appreciate your kind thoughts. Indeed, Scott's story should be more widely known. Your idea of three stories unfolding in parallel and ultimately coming together would certainly make a good movie - like Wonderstruck, except 1857, 1877, and 2007. - dgio

[@Southlondonrider92]

I thought I was only going to hear some old sounds but actually got taught a lot of interesting shit. Thanks

[@cdub1059]

Dang Arthur Sullivan had great sense of humor haha 3:50

[@LThaPunisha]

Yet also wasn't wrong lol!

[@frankmarano7530]

Absolutely fascinating to hear a musical instrument in 1857 and human voice in 1860.

[@dantecaputo2629]

I laughed at a joke a man made in 1888.

[@Dude0000]

Dante Caputo have you got a timestamp for this joke? Or appropriate where it is in the video, please. Thank you.

[@Car1Sagan]

Imagine if Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville could hear what 21st Century innovation revealed, his own voice recorded clearly in 1860, and somewhat also as early as 1853, 34 years before Edison's "Mary had a little lamb". Maybe, dying a pauper, he's now in heaven smiling down while hearing this.

[@Remememea]

Sir Arthur, your terrors have been realized...more than you know.

[@debbie94510]

Fascinating detective story and this takes KZbin to a new and heady high. Magnificent!

[@derekmyers3258]

Being that recorded sound is the sum total of my existence on Earth, this has been a goldmine of information. And, unlike the books on the subject I read as a child, I can actually hear these 'ancient' people.

[@twomindz79]

I'm watching this video on a pocket sized phone. Crazy.

[@MrDaiseymay]

what would these early geniuses thought of todays inventions? and---those in the far future, think of todays too?

[@lephilosopheinconnu3952]

Indeed 😂😂

[@ss-fg4bf]

I was born in 1964. My first cell phone was a flip phone. Every time I opened it thought, " Kirk to Enterprise.. " Current tech is the science fiction of my childhood.

[@videogrammergroup3335]

Science project

[@vinushkas]

There's something uncomfortable about listening to old recordings, like I become more aware of the passage of time and death. But it's also fascinating, so I keep listening anyway...

[@raisa_cherry33]

Same feeling!

[@DanBakerMusic]

A sine wave time code. Intense respect is due to Monsieur Scott de Martinville.

[@ameliaantique5345]

This is the coolest thing I have ever watched. So fascinating.

[@Krustyclown5791]

This was so worth watching. I loved hearing this history.

[@raisa_cherry33]

The more I watch the more the fascination grows.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That's because it illustrates how also our brains translate shockwaves into sound. You can get an audio editor (like, e.g., Audacity) onto your machine, speak vowels into it, magnify the recorded graph, and see how you produce the most beautiful and regular patterns, with your vocal cords. The vowel of the French "les", e.g., looks just like the waves on the surface of a lake into which a stone has fallen, with shorter waves being superimposed. The vowel in the end of "Bordeaux" produces a most pretty up and down of straight, inclined lines, like the silhouette of a mountain range, but with the exactly same shape again and again returning. You also can simply _draw_ a line with whatever forms and have it read by a machine that makes it resound.

[@stacymirba1433]

I have zero knowledge of this subject but this is incredibly fascinating.

[@jezebel324]

This must be trending, and its well deserved! What a MASSIVE undertaking by pure enthusiasts, the sheer history that’s being unveiled here...!

[@omegav2626]

4:00 incredibly wise

[@NPC-zo7yo]

He was right

[@chopin65]

This should be made into a film. Thank you, France!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Such a film could, indeed, unfold quite an educational potential! It could show how sound is pressure, and generally, how the brain produces vivid experiences, out of the driest sort of an input.

[@bbenjoe]

Fun fact: the earliest born human whos voice was recorded was most likely the Hungarian statesman Lajos Kossuth, he was born in 1802, while his voice was recorded in 1890.

[@AnnihilatingAngel]

Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Von Moltke was recorded, and he was born in 1799.

[@gmehaywood4010]

I’ve just listened to a audio clip from someone from 1859 and it was amazing!

[@MrPoupard]

In 2019 it's utterly impossible to conceive the world as it existed for millenia .... a place where no music was eve heard unless it was played, sung or whistled ….. live . And then suddenly …… BAM! …. there is recorded sound. Can any of us even begin to imagine the effect it had on the first generation to hear it?? I don't have a crystal ball but I bet that no matter what developments occur in the next 1000 years that leap will never be replicated.

[@johndowe7003]

music was heard, theres songs and musical instruments that have been used for a really long time just cause it was recorded doesnt mean it never happened

[@lightsourcer1703]

Nobby Heads YES. Well said. 😊

[@PhatPhrogStudios]

Incredible that we are listening to people from 1860!!! that has blown my mind!

[@boneytiger5650]

Or one playing an instrument in 1857.

[@dsimon33871]

So glad someone else had that thought! I had a similar thought with the oldest photos.

[@Dick_Valparaiso]

4:19 Arthur Sullivan called it! Jokes aside, it really seems like a lot of people instinctually knew what the future would bring- with frightening accuracy nonetheless. Then again, by May of 1900 cat videos were already a thing. ...So, maybe we're not so different🤷‍♂️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/boiQeIt-aLKlm5I

[@shawnadyment]

Not sure how I ended up on this video, but it was really interesting and I did learn a lot! Impressed by the original inventor and its really a shame his family can't find his grave.

[@marcfedak]

Excellent historical presentation, including all the complexities in trying to safely play for the first time ever, a recording from the "Lost Decade".

[@shabnamnikkhoo2169]

I can't thank you enough for sharing your wonderful journey of discovering and recording history as closest to what and how it happened. It's been the most exciting feeling listening and watching these acts. I'm imagining a meeting of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Charles Cros and you discussing what happened all these years later.

[@DGioTuber]

Thank you for your kind thoughts. I love the idea sitting in a cafe with Édouard-Léon and Charles. Several years ago Laurent Scott de Martinville and I spent a long evening dining and drinking at several Parisian establishments that were in business when his great-grandfather was alive. We could not conjure the ghost of Édouard-Léon, but we certainly felt him there in spirit. - dgio

[@CMFL77]

KZbin recommendations coming through bigtime again! Wish I would have seen this years ago when posted. Absolutely fascinating. You re-wrote history and credited another person left in Edisons bin. Excellent work!

[@myuncle2]

I am not french, but it's so interesting also the fact that another underrated inventor was french: Basile Bouchon. We are not giving enough credit to Bouchon. After all, his "Punch Card" invention from 1725, is possibly the first ever computer.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Thank you for the hint! Concerning an underestimation of the French, I assume you're aware that France in the 18th and 19th centuries together with England was leading, worldwide, much like the USA and China are it now?!

[@EvilBill]

The algorithm strikes again! 5 years after original publication. Not sure why it was recommended to me, but it's really COOL!

[@docbones213]

Same. Got this randomly.

[@doom5895]

It's close to being nostalgic I guess

[@davecrupel2817]

3:15 they sound amazing!

[@JillKnapp]

This is riveting! What an important and exciting discovery, and what a neat way to present it, too. Your joyful curiosity is absolutely infectious. Thank you so, so very much to you and the rest of First Sounds for doing all of this research and making it all freely accessible to the public. (And I really hope the good people in Menlo Park, NJ give credit where credit's due!)

[@veryhairykrishna7225]

He was right to be terrified, we did in fact record terrible music to last forever.

[@tobiasmacivey3525]

I’m glad to see this making the rounds on KZbin again. This research was almost as important as the original inventions - otherwise these recording would be lost forever. Still deserves FAR more views than 160k...

[@originaldanman]

Not sure if you know this, but back in the 1700's Rev. John Wesley in his journal speaks of a man who invented a clock, in which if (I remember right) 2 people would emerge from at the top of the box, and a voice would come from the clock and announce the time every quarter hour. He said that people would come from all over to see the clock, but no one ever gave him any money for it so he took it apart and put it in storage and it was never seen again. How the voices were produced is still a mystery, could they have been recorded?

[@el.blanco8961]

Happy that there are more eyes on the recently, knew about this for some time and happy there are more people enthusiastic about this as I am.

[@shumack48]

I am stunned at this discovery, that in the 21st century I can hear an inventor of the mid 19th century

[@MrDaiseymay]

My dad was born in that century, so WE, bridge 3 century's.

[@cathe8282]

This is wonderful! I remember hearing that speeded up, ghostly song when it was first reported but I have never heard the further evaluation and sound correction. M. Scott's voice is clearly more eerie than the distorted original sound, just because it sounds more human.

[@judyjones5089]

That was my same experience! Fascinating!

[@CassetteMaster]

Absolutely fantastic. I am a big fan of the recovery of early audio recordings. This was a fantastic presentation!

[@dylangnarxcore]

No clue how I ended up here, but i'm diggin it lol

[@Vivelabretagnelibre]

Proud to be French !!! (for once) : we invented photography and sound recording ! VIVE LA FRANCE ! amazing documentary & research work, congrats from France !

[@mckernan603]

Ricky1968 Too bad he didn’t record Liszt’s voice!

[@robandrews4815]

Don't forget moving pictures. The Lumiere brothers were among the first, to film movement as well.

[@Nytephyre]

This deserves so many more views. Thank you for your hard work.

[@SkyVettel]

A brilliant, tremendous documentary on an extremely important, historic topic.

[@beerborn]

The very first ever recording of a human voice from the silent decade was from an irritated horse & carriage taxi driver in New York City in 1878...." Hey, move that piece of shit off the road. This ain't New Joyzee !"

[@UhOhHereWeGo]

God what a gift technology is. Amazing work. Thank you for preserving and perfecting this momentous historical artifact.

[@paolaquintano936]

3:05 Basically, the first ever choir ever recorded was in 1888. It's 4000 people singing G F Handel's Israel in Egypt from 91 meters away. It sounds a bit creepy for the static but i cannot complain because this was 1888 so you get the point. .

[@renerpho]

It is the earliest playable recording of any kind of music that involved more than a single person. There might have been some singing duets among Edison's recordings from the 1870s and 80s, but all of those are too damaged to be played.

[@guccimalcs]

My man drew sound onto paper. That’s crazy

[@someoneelse1441]

I wonder how much data from such recording could we reconstruct using modern AI solutions that weren't as available 6 years ago, when this video was mode, as they are now. I wouldn't be surprised if we could get a crisp, clear recording thanks to AI filling in the gaps, based on models of sound of the voices, created by millions of samples of various high quality speech recordings.

[@MintleafCakes]

true

[@nickolaswilcox425]

im sure given another decade or so of the various technologies we could get something clearer, but many of those recordings are simply too distorted or otherwise incomplete to ever be fully restored unless they can figure out the quirks of the machine at that time of development to reverse the damage done by the machine itself, the random wavering of some random feather is going to be the biggest complication involved

[@agimasoschandir]

As long as the information has not degraded too much, technology will catch up

[@CallieRoseMartinsyde]

I remember the first time I heard the recording of Au Claire de la Lune. Even then, having no idea what the story was behind it, it sounded kind of chipmunked. Good on you for continuing to work to get it right. I love hearing stories like this - new ways of connecting with the people who came before us. Thank you for this video!

[@chark7163]

The first photograph and first sounds are probably the most interesting thing in history. It's fun to imagine what it might have been like if it was developed a lot sooner. Technology has come a long way and I love this history of the oldest.

[@johnfoster535]

What an awesome discovery these investigators made !! That a voice from 1860 can come alive today from squiggles made in soot on paper is mind boggling . Although Scott had no way to play his recordings back at the time, this tremendous discovery has now incredibly made his voice span the ages to be heard for the first time.......the first voice recorded of ALL time !!

[@njcurmudgeon]

So Scott also has the first "blooper" because he transposed the words of a song! This is amazing stuff and I look forward to learning what's happened since this was posted 7 years ago!

[@ESCAGEDOWOODWORKING]

The historical relevance of this is beyond proper comprehension. What a wonderful story!

[@great769]

Thank you for this, my Great Grandfather was 7 in 1857 when the first sound was recorded, wow.

[@atflossing18]

When they gonna drop a new album

[@RichardKuz]

One of the best KZbin docs I’ve seen. Thank you!

[@OthellZethus]

How the hell does this have a content ID claim on it, and how does anyone even own the rights to audio from the late 1880's: "The Orchard Music (on behalf of New World Records); Sony ATV Publishing, SOLAR Music Rights Management, and 2 Music Rights Societies." Go figure, shady music corporations sucking the blood from the dead even. What a joke. History this old shouldn't have copyrights on them, it should be illegal to own a copyright on something that has educational value such as this.

[@DGioTuber]

I appreciate your remarks. You are correct -- a pirate has claimed ownership of something he does not own in order to receive the ad revenue. When I first uploaded this video I was notified it infringed on copyrighted materials. I would be allowed to keep the video online, the notice continued, if I agreed that the "copyright owner" could monetize it through ads. I did not agree. I responded with links proving the audio recording in question, the 1888 Crystal Palace cylinder, is archived at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park and is most certainly in the public domain: www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/very-early-recorded-sound.htm KZbin rejected my appeal without comment. I thought it better to leave the video up than take it down. I'm sure the actual pirates have made a few dollars from the ads, hopefully at great expense to their reputation. - David Giovannoni

[@iaindcosta]

John Schott, KZbin, The Orchard Music, New World Records; SOLAR Music Rights Management, Sony ATV Publishing, and 2 Music Rights Societies= the pirates

[@OthellZethus]

@@DGioTuber Well KZbin did not review your appeal, when you dispute a claim it goes to the "rights holder" where the content ID match came from and they read your appeal and are the ones who rejected your appeal. So The Orchard right now says they OWN the rights to this piece of audio. KZbin doesn't necessarily get involved in these copyright disputes. A good lawyer who knows copyright laws could probably get it released in a few minutes because this sounds illegal, in fact this company could possibly even get hit with a lawsuit in the end because they are selling this piece of audio on Amazon among other places, too. It's freakin' insane.

[@ZeusTheTornado]

All my life I've heard that after 75 years after the death of the material author, it belongs to the public domain. Even if I'm wrong, you're right: music that old is history; and shouldn't be "owned" by nobody.

[@willhammers9761]

@@OthellZethus .003 cent per commercial view... Don't spend it all in one place Mr. pirate

[@Durfield]

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing this.

[@doom5895]

Still better audio than youtube videos from 2006

[@siddharth653]

Beautiful documentary, about time that we grant due recognition and accolades posthumously to an unsung inventor. BRAVO!!!

[@all1rog]

A really fascinating story of the invention of sound recording. I had never heard of Scott de Martinville and hope that his achievement will be widely recognized beyond the specialized scientific community. if only the discovery had been built on earlier, we might have heard the voices of Lincoln and Dickens!

[@Twizzledoc187]

At first I thought I was going to scroll quickly through this but I was captivated and intrigued the entire time.

[@randyyoshida6103]

That was quite an amazing video. Thank you for what appears tireless work to enlighten us and bring much deserved recognition to the work of Mr. Scott.

[@deano72]

What a interesting and a wonderful video.

[@angel3sappin914]

A few years ago in high school, I should’ve known that documentary back then. I would definitely show this to my history teacher of these amazing and unheard sounds made from 1857-1860 Paris. He’d feel intrigued of it, even my class too.

[@40ounce58]

I love hearing history from people long ago. I love your channel.

[@DGioTuber]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@raisa_cherry33]

I do too 😍

[@marcuscorder]

This was goddamn fascinating.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Yes, it's fascinating how a line on a piece of paper can be made into reasonable sound. As even more amazing should be considered, meanwhile, that _your brain_ can make such a primitive succession of shockwaves into a song.

[@raisa_cherry33]

I am a sucker for history on anything,I am glad it showed on my video list and lo I am here. Thank you for sharing this gem 👏👏

[@yapyap66]

Incredible: thoroughly enjoyed this video, thank you so much.. amazing to think that multitrack recording on a computer these days uses the same kind of scratchings to visualise sound, history has gone full circle

[@guy-fl1gr]

30:40 you heard it guys. Time for the mathemeticians to get on this!

[@mmestari]

Arthur Sullivan's prediction is the most accurate prediction made about music ever.

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

For real.

[@LudwigDeLarge]

Thank you for these precious documents. Too bad that Martinville hadn't enough relations and money to invite the greatest personalities of his times in his laboratory. We could have heard Franz Liszt playing piano, or even Baudelaire's own voice.

[@c.a.g.3130]

...or enough 'inventiveness' to devise a practical, working apparatus.

[@abumulla4606]

Excellent piece of work.. Thanks so much for your kind time and effort. Much appreciated.

[@George_uh_Glass]

Wow. Chillingly beautiful. Almost unbelievable. The toast to Edison was funny 😆

[@renerpho]

Mr. Sullivan would be horrified if he knew just how right he was about all the bad music.

[@mustafa198289]

Absolutely superb. Thank you for sharing your discoveries and making it possible for the public have easy and digestible access to it.

[@joshuataylor6087]

This is a gem! I stumbled across it and couldn't stop watching. So interesting and well presented.

[@gabrielazamora7207]

This video was amazing! It was informative, concise and even invoked a wonderful sense of awe. I not only got chills but cried when they played Édouard-Léon Scott's voice. I will be sharing this with everyone. Many thanks to those that made this possible.

[@deaustin4018]

an exercise in imaginative fancy - de Martinville went to the White House with his apparatus sometime between 1861 and 1865. Imagine the sensation if those recordings were ever found

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"My name is Abraham Lincoln...Four score and seven years ago..."