Sound Without Wires Brett Hurt - by Sigal Music Museum

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Free Sun, Jun 28 • 3 PM. Get tickets
Step back in time and hear history come alive! Join us with Brett Hurt to discuss the history of recording and replaying sound/music!
This is a free lecture but registration is required. If you like these kinds of events, please consider supporting the Museum's programming by making a donation.
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In this lecture, we'll trace the remarkable story of how humanity first learned to capture and replay sound — from a Frenchman scratching waveforms into glass to the golden age of the 78 RPM record.
We'll begin with Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the visionary (and forgotten) pioneer who attempted to record sound on glass in the 1850s — decades before anyone thought to play it back. From there, we move to Thomas Edison and his astonishing cylinder phonograph, then follow Emile Berliner as he revolutionized the industry with the flat disc and changed listening forever.
Along the way, we'll explore the full arc of early recorded sound: the transition from cylinder recordings to the gramophone disc, the rise of the Victrola, and the cultural moment when music first became something you could own and play at home.


Sigal Museum
516 Buncombe Street, Greenville, SC 29601 US · GREENVILLE, SC

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