The recording was originally made on a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.

1888, the year of the death of the composer Charles-Valentin Alkan (Chopin's friend and neighbour) is also the year of the earliest surviving recording of music and earliest recorded film.

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Recorded on June 22, 1878. This includes a new restoration of the 1878 recording. Most of the noise produced by folds in the foil have been removed.

The first successful sound recording ever made was of a 435 hz tuning fork made by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville.

As is well known, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, with tin foil initially being used as the medium for recording sound (mainly the human voice). However, these early tin foil recordings were fragile and prone to tearing, and the sounds reco...

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