Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Au Clair de la Lune

Au Clair de la Lune

This 1860 phonautogram by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is the earliest known recording of the human voice.

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Yes, this is a pre-Edison featured sound. I bet no-one was expecting that! This was not originally intended as a recording. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created his device as a sort of early oscillograph, but in the last few months, it has been discovered that it is possible to play them back anyway. The press release revealing this surprising turn of events came out in March.

It also forces me to apologise for WP:Featured sound candidates/Israel In Egypt. While I had reliable sources saying it was the earliest known surviving music, well, that's the trouble with that word "known". While Israel in Egypt remains the earliest surviving phonograph cylinder recording of music - and the earliest surviving intentional recording of music, if someone feels this new discovery should replace it, do open a delist nomination. I think it still has merit as a featured sound, but I'll argue the case there, not in a different nom.

So, again, I apologise for not being fully up to date, and I hope you'll enjoy the surprise of a pre-Edison sound file as much as I did. Thanks to User:Rama for pointing me to this. More information is available at [1].

Nominate and support. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 13:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support: The historical significance of this file makes up for the bad quality. It is the quality that weakens my support, but this can be counted as a full support vote by the closer...... Dendodge .. Talk^Contribs 12:00, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support I was waiting for someone to nominate this. Durova^Charge! 21:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support even though I can not not here any human voice. Z gin der 2008-08-19T00:15Z (UTC)

Promoted Au Clair de la Lune (1860).ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 02:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]