Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Israel In Egypt

Israel In Egypt

Handel festival: "Israel In Egypt" (excerpt)

The earliest surviving recording of music. Recorded on a paraffin cylinder in June 29, 1888. — 2274 KB

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While the quality of this is abysmal, having been badly degraded by too many playings of the wax cylinder, this extract of Israel in Egypt is also the earliest bit of recorded music still in existence.[1] As such, it probably deserves to be a featured sound, despite its excessive flaws. 2m28s.

Nominate and support. - Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 06:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but can this be cleaned up a bit? Zginder 2008-08-01T17:07Z (UTC)
- There's not really anything more to reveal underneath, as far as I can tell - it's perhaps more of an example of how phonograph cylinders degrade. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 17:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support as nominated. Its principal encyclopedic value is as a demonsration of early wax cylinder technology. Durova^Charge! 07:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted --Seddσn ^talk ^{Editor Review} 04:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]