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Radio 4,2 mins

Voices from the 1860s

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A de Martinville "phonautograph" (pictured here) recording revealed a young girl singing Au clair de la lune. Announcing this discovery on the Âé¶¹Éç caused Charlotte Green to corpse – but this wasn't the end of the story. The historians who made the recording had played it at the wrong speed...

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