[78-L] Earliest born to record (was Engraved records)

[Chris Zwarg]

At 20:14 14.10.2008, you wrote:
>DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>
>> I just came across an interesting record.  It's a speech by Leo Tolstoy./ 
>> snip/
>> Since Tolstoy was born in 1828, this is probably the oldest recorded 
>> person I have on
>> records, (he shared the planet with Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, 
>> Schumann, etc).
>> Previously the oldest one I knew of was Josef Joachim, but he was three 
>> years younger.
>----
>Mike Biel has pointed out that Hungarian politician Lajos Kossuth, born 
>1802, was the oldest.

I still think that Tolstoy is the earliest-born person who made a *commercially issued* record (the 1909 HMVs of which David has one).

Chris Zwarg

>Here's from Wikipedia:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth
>
>> In 1890, a delegation of Hungarian pilgrims in Turin recorded a short 
>> patriotic speech
>> delivered by the elderly Lajos Kossuth. The original recording on two wax 
>> cylinders for the
>> Edison phonograph survives to this day, although barely audible due to 
>> excess playback and > unsuccessful early restoration attempts. Lajos 
>> Kossuth is the earliest born person in the world > who has his voice 
>> preserved.
>
>And here's the voice:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SBwVB83WU
>
>Kristjan 
>
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