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Thomas A. Edison was granted a patent on the phonograph on this day in 1878.
"Dear Mr. Edison: I am astonished and terrified at the results of this evening's experiment. Astonished at the wonderful form you have developed and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever." -- Sir Arthur Sullivan.
...The band was to
start at eleven, for some reason. Maybe he’d hang around, listen to some music
for a change. Although he had to say, most of what passed for music today left
him cold. No lyrics or melodies. Say
what you would about some of the shit he’d grown up listening to, at least you
could find a tune in there somewhere, usually. But now…what had happened?
What had happened to him, maybe that was it. Was he that old, that the music had totally
changed, as if it were from some other world, far in the future? Or rather,
that he was from some other world,
far in the past? -- The Misforgotten, Chapter 31.
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