This is a person singing “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit” – a snippet from a French folksong. Made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on is “phonautograph” – a device that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp. Celebrities, Historic Figures
Track Summary Sound Effect Title: Au Clair de La Lune (Oldest Sound Recording in the World, From 1860) Catalog ID: 281859 ISRC: US5UL0729403
Description: This is a person singing “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit” – a snippet from a French folksong. Made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on is “phonautograph” – a device that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp.
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