September 1881 recording on an Edison Phonograph with wax at Volta Laboratory (Adobe AI enhanced)

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The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History (SI NMAH) Volta Laboratory collection consists of early experimental sound recordings (1881-1886) created by Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Sumner Tainter, Chichester A. Bell, and associates. In collaboration with the Smithsonian some of these recordings are being restored and presented to the public.
More information at: http://bio16p.lbl.gov/volta-release-2...

Notes from P.Feaster discography:
• Date: Final recording made September 1881. Machine was in use for similar experiments throughout the preceding summer.
• Format: Edison phonograph with widened groove filled with wax and cut with a vertical recording.
• Inscription (in ink, on attached card): The following words and sounds are recorded upon the cylinder of this Graphophone: "T-r-r—T-r-r—There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamed of in our philosophy—T-r-r—I am a Graphophone and my mother was a Phonograph.
• Documentation: THN leading up to 3:44, Notes accompanying Volta Laboratory sealed package of October 1881.