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The French have been ahead of the curve even longer than we thought 

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 14:01
by VigierDJ
This isn't necessarily guitar-related, but it's still pretty cool!

20 years before Edison patented the phonograph, a French scientist captured visual representations of sound. Pretty cool:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/08/us/earliest-recordings-sound/index.html

Here is the 150 year old recording:
http://www.firstsounds.org/