Restored ! 1857 Cornet Scale Recording

A Scale played on the cornet by an unknown performer, as recorded by Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville in December 1857. This recording was originally unintelligible due to being recorded before Scott had added a tuning fork timecode to calibrate his recordings, but thanks to researchers at First Sounds, the recording has been calibrated to itself, using the knowledge that a standard scale was the recording topic. The original recording lasts 8 seconds ; the second half of this upload has been edited by me to hear the scale played in descending order. This is the oldest sound recording of a recognizable subject in the world, and will probably remain so.

[@Nebulasecura]

To think when this was recorded, James Buchanan was President of the United States and there was still at least 3-4 American Revolutionary War veterans still alive

[@xylfox]

How do you know that there were 3-4 alive at this time ?

[@Nebulasecura]

@@xylfox because of verified historical records of the time, you can even look it up

[@teambeanpie339]

@@Nebulasecura ooo cool!

[@lowlightpiano7110]

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[@epicgamer48yt]

Before the civil war, before Germany was unified, this will be 200 years old in the late 2050s

[@Londonfogey]

He followed this hit up with the chart-topping 'Au Claire De La Luna' three years later.

[@danielolson1465]

Just think: this sound was uttered during the American Antebellum, and when Thomas Edison was a mere teenager.

[@renanromanov6466]

This sound was actually recorded by Leon Scott, not Edison.

[@raelmickaelbeneteau1125]

His name is Leon Scott de Martinville: not just Scott , he was French.

[@jawwwp428]

Rael Mickael Beneteau he never said that

[@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621]

Edison should not be credited for creating phonograph The one you're hearing is the original creator "eduard leon"

[@chrisarchard2009]

@@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621 thank, didnt know that

[@RetroFan]

1857. A good year. i remember it well.

[@Papismackmyassss]

Old grandma: *All those teenagers and their phonograms!*

[@jackqueslack2339]

better than 2020

[@jeffreycarlson6160]

Name checks out.

[@timothyr.cyphers6939]

☺️

[@georgecornwallace3518]

I have bad memories in 1857 But I’m 1858 was nostalgic ngl

[@jackwolf7966]

how much more sound recordings can we restore? It's just like nowadays we can restore almost any sound recording or even some cases movies! These days we have the technology to restore anything, which is amazing when you think about it!

[@Mritalicsmine]

I have a question for the sound experts: years ago, secretary Rosemary Woods stated that she had accidentally erased parts of the Nixon Watergate tapes. Back in the early 1970s the experts told us that there was no current technology to reveal what was said because some areas of the tape were erased up to 8 times. Question: has technology enabled us to now hear what they so skillfully tried to conceal?

[@RetroFan]

@@Mritalicsmine With how magnetic tape works, I don't think there is a way. It's not like having a hard drive to use software to recover something deleted.

[@AntoniosRemasteredworks]

@@RetroFan but if she erased the tape and didn't record over, maybe the magnetic field is still there, but weaker

[@lazychemistry]

Once tape has been corrupted at best you'll recover something completely inaudible 😁👍

[@lowlightpiano7110]

Repent and trust in Jesus. we deserve Hell for our sins. For example lying, lusing, saying God's name as a cuss word and stealing our just some examples of sin which we can all admit to doing at least one of those. For our sin we deserve death and Hell, but there is a way out. Repent anf trust in Jesus and you will be saved. Repentence is turning from sin. So repent and trust in Jesus. He will save you from Hell, and instead give you eternal life in Heaven. John 3:16 Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤

[@demonufo]

Got to be the best reproduction of any of his recordings. Most impressive.

[@TomokoAbe_]

Ghost of the past centuries old--heard in 2023. Amazing.

[@hamburgerhamburger4064]

Amazing. Slaves were working while this was made, yet we can still year it.

[@MicoAquinoComposer]

Thomas Edison was only 8 years old when Leon Scott recorded this audio. 😮

[@hamburgerhamburger4064]

Mico N. Aquino yeah, Thomas dosent deserve the credit, he Improved on it.

[@raelmickaelbeneteau1125]

@@hamburgerhamburger4064 not really, Edison invented a machine that was also able to restitute recorded audio. That was not the case with this one.

[@dguy0386]

what i heard was the photonograph that recorded this is what inspired the telephone which inspired the phonograph, its like dominos, one caused another

[@aughjaiuruskk]

Okay. But why just Thomas Edison?

[@ragtimejohn]

I've recently discovered your channel. I'm now a huge fan. Thanks for the excellent work/research.

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

John, somehow I didn’t see your kind comment till 3 years later ! I am also a fan of your channel !

[@lowlightpiano7110]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We deserve Hell for our sin. Lying, lusting, etc, but God sent his son Jesus to die on the cross and ride from the grave to free us from sin. If you repent and trust in him youll be saved. Romans 3:23 John 3:16❤😊❤❤😊

[@dguy0386]

this is probably the real "first recorded sound" unless you count the unintelligible other 1850s recordings Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded earlier, which stretch the definition of "recording" a little bit. An clare de la lune claims many firsts such as the first recorded song and the first recorded human voice, but i believe this is the first real recording.

[@OddBunches]

Please explain more about these pre 1857 recordings I can not find any info on any recordings before 1857

[@azathoth0820]

@@OddBunches kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4PFen2ZZZqEiqM

[@OddBunches]

@@azathoth0820 Thanks

[@AJ_Deadshow]

As a fan of EATEOT, I dig the garbled sounds

[@moow950]

Is it possible there could be natural occurred recordings of soundwaves? So maybe sound was somehow recorded in amber?

[@DARisse-ji1yw]

I was wondering about the fine brush strokes made in thick oil paints by the masters.....

[@ProfezorSnayp]

@@DARisse-ji1yw You mean like this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/poHEdpeseNhkeZo

[@sydwhitaker5776]

No

[@thomasandreassosna9093]

Erstaunlich wie gut die Tonqualität besonders in der Mittel- bis Oberlage ist. Hier erkennt man sogar das Instrument.

[@PopeyeOldGamer46]

Good video!

[@samnicholson5051]

Interesting how it sounds better and worse as the frequencies go up and down on the scale.

[@iannogueira1848]

fantastic

[@ericktorres9826]

Is it possible to restore older sound recordings?

[@zzascha5512]

Erick Torres I hope so.

[@mr.jinjie3749]

Erick Torres there currently isn't any older sound recordings in the world. Sorry to disappoint you

[@atomlightstone]

@@mr.jinjie3749 actually, there is a sound recording of him tuning a guitar, from 1853 or 1854. You can actually listen To it on this very guys channel

[@cubeiafuzy5211]

bohunk boy even a human voice in 1860.

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

I remember the day when he dropped it

[@LBlueMusiCollection]

Do re mi fa sol la si do do si la sol fa mi re do

[@uglyasmflol]

Only 1850 kids will understand 😔

[@xzraidenxthegod504]

Shut up your anus fucking Army

[@MrPickleMan1297]

This sounds 1000x better than the 1860 one.

[@Sobieski_IV_Emperor_Gods_mercy]

Erstaunlich gut.

[@azathoth0820]

If this was restored so can they restore the other Scott's recordings that are still unintelligible?

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

It's not likely. Because the subject matter was known to be a simple scale, the recording could be calibrated to itself (ascending notes in key). FirstSounds have released experiments where they tried to take Scott's 'deep voice' recording and calibrate it so the voice stays at a single pitch, which is only a guess. Other 1857 Scott recordings, where he speaks or sings, must remain mysteries because there is no way for us to know how to reconstruct the unknown or complex subject matter.

[@nostalgik._]

They can’t because of the low quality, brevity and irregularity of speed

[@SaimAli-eq1yn]

Sir ge our old awaz suno thnk

[@TheCutePyro]

Can someone explain the whole tuning fork thing? Wasn't he just trying to capture the waves of sound on pieces of paper and never intended for these to be played back? Did he go through the trouble of all this tuning fork and timecode nonsense hoping the people of the future could say "First" for him?

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

The problem with Scott's early design was that the result on paper was wildly uneven lines, without regards to any pitch or cranking speed. But a tuning fork would result in a uniform wave on paper that could be measured and observed. He added a second line of recording to his design in 1860, a simultaneous tuning fork set off as the recording was made, that would result in a line with a known pitch plus his more complex recording side by side on the paper. This allowed acousticians to use his device in a scientific way because each moment of the recording could be measured against the known frequency of the set reference tone. When modern researchers recovered the recording in 2008, this reference pitch was the key to knowing the speed at which to play back each second of the recording. Scott's famous "Au Clair De La Lune", recorded in April 1860, is often said to be the first real recording, because it's the first time he used the tuning fork calibration on an experiment.

[@wthe9669]

still better than me trying to hopelessly tune my violin

[@thoughtsforthebuilders]

it gets easier

[@PhantomXY2]

Do re mi fa sol that's awesome

[@SaimAli-eq1yn]

Good

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

is he doing any gigs soon?

[@JohnPaulBuce]

wow

[@InsideoutJoy]

Any one have the original?

[@OberstTeuton]

just one year earlier the Texas Republic existed...

[@bartthegamer1354]

What is the picture?

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

The picture is Leon Scott's own 1857 drawing of a phonautograph recording session that was included in his patent with the French Patent Office.

[@bartthegamer1354]

Cheers

[@Byveland]

eminem has been silent ever since this dropped

[@vlaizsibayanlikestekken]

Do re mi fa so la TI do origin.

[@orionsuniversepart2932]

Knowing that cornets are usually b-flat instruments, if this was the sound of a cornet recorded on the phonautograph, it would be more of a b-flat ascending scale, so instead of C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C it would be more like G sharp, A, B sharp, C, D, E, F sharp, G sharp.

[@deaustin4018]

as far as I understand it, de Martinville actually recorded the wave forms of air born sounds onto paper, definitely a first. There isn't, however, and never was a way to play back these recordings. The computer program simply interprets the wave forms as they appear on paper and composes a playback based on information provided by the programmers as to what a waveform of the sort might have sounded like, mostly guess work. We still have no idea what the original actually sounded like. It wasn't until Edison that true analogue playback was possible rather than just a digital interpretation.

[@ProfezorSnayp]

"We still have no idea what the original actually sounded like." But we do, the sound wave pattern is right there on the paper. You could say that no recording, on any type of medium is the 'original sound' but it doesn't matter. Scott's paper phonographs are good as any modern digital sound recording.

[@thoughtsforthebuilders]

@@ProfezorSnayp I definitely prefer digital to paper nowadays, but your point still stands.

[@eddiekulp1241]

They made a sound recording machine, yet couldn't play it back then. What was the point?

[@56firedome]

1857? I think someone is off by about 25 years.

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

This recording is a well documented experiment from 1857 made for the French Academy of Sciences in the presence of Jules Lissajous, a pioneering acoustician and chairman of France's SEIN, an association of experts that assessed new technologies for their use in French industry. For more info, check out the Bicentennial Tribute book (with flexi-disc) on Leon Scott published by Archeophone records (it's available on their web site).

[@lllexoduslll]

@Laura Streeter 20 years before Edison.

[@lowlightpiano7110]

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[@ferociousgumby]

This sounds like autotune. I still believe First Sounds is a fraud.

[@ferociousgumby]

But it was my first thought, and often those are right. I made a blog post about this and other musical frauds (such as a recording of Chopin playing the Minute Waltz!) margaretgunnng.blogspot.com/2019/09/hoax.html

[@psychedelicpiper999]

Have you watched the 55-minute documentary First Sounds made in 2014? Turns out the “Au clair de la lune” recording was played back at 500 Hz, when it should have been played back at 250 Hz. They correct this in the documentary, and you can audibly hear the voice of a man, the inventor himself, singing the song. Other recordings from that same year are demonstrated. First Sounds is certainly not a hoax, but the Chopin recording you are talking about definitely is.

[@ferociousgumby]

I can't quite believe the tempo of the corrected recording - it is just unbelievably slow. The first version sounded like it was the right speed. I don't know, with all the elaborate fiddling going on, and with autotune able to do just about anything, I think they might have found a couple of tones, or one, and made it into a three-note melody. With the technology they had, it'd probably be easy. Thus an experimental sound would be shaped into a "song", which is much more impressive and easier for the brain to latch onto. The thing is, the documentary is always going to present everything they did as fact.

[@ferociousgumby]

I like this one, however! It demonstrates how scientists might manipulate the sounds. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWjYkmymr6yUnbs

[@psychedelicpiper999]

@@ferociousgumby How do you explain the clip of the inventor reciting poetry then, and how it corresponded to the note he included? It doesn't sound like you actually watched the documentary.