Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/The Lost Chord

The Lost Chord[edit]

1888 recording of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord"

Recorded by George Gouraud, and played at the August 14 1888 press conference that introduced the phonograph to London.

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A wax cylinder recording from Edison's "Perfected" Phonograph, used in a press conference that introduced the phonograph to London.

This is not the earliest known recording of music: However, the earliest recording is this: [1] - which is almost unlistenable, thanks to severe degradation.

This recording, however, is less than a month and a half after that one, and is actually quite a good performance, after a few seconds, the distortion clears, and the middle section is surprisingly good. Though it ends a bit abruptly, given the timescales, I think that it is astounding.

Appears in Arthur Sullivan, The Lost Chord, Phonograph cylinder.

Nominate and support. - Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
support BTW: the oldest is of much historical importance and no matter how bad the quality, I would make it a FS. Z gin der 2008-07-18T02:19Z (UTC)
Strong support for historic reasons. Durova^Charge! 08:06, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Edison_cylinder_Lost_Chord.ogg --Filll (talk | wpc) 03:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]