OT - Edison's first recording trumped ?

Mr. Ovation Posted 2009-01-02 12:34 PM (#435507) Subject: OT - Edison's first recording trumped ? Joined: December 2001 Posts: 7211 Location: The Great Pacific Northwest This article popped up on an RSS feed today, and I thought it worth sharing. The info about Edison is really just additional interest. The preservation of these old "recordings" (term used loosely) and the observations about who buys music, and how mainstream music is or isn't marketed... well, this article just got me thinking about a lot of things all at once. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0102/p13s01-almp.html Paul Templeman Posted 2009-01-02 5:06 PM (#435508 - in reply to #435507) Subject: Re: OT - Edison's first recording trumped ? Joined: February 2002 Posts: 5750 Location: Scotland The pre-Edison recording has been known for quite a while now. The theory of wire recording preceeded Edison too. Who cares? None of it had any impact. It was Edison's work that made mass production of recordings possible, and Berliner who significantly improved upon it. And that's why they are more important. The mass production and distribution of recordings, coupled later with the promotional posibilities of radio in the early 20's created huge cash-cow empires, back when printed music created millionaires, long before the term "download" existed. How times have changed.