118 Years Later, Japan's Earliest Sound Recordings Still Resonate
Sessions in a Tokyo hotel room with a sound engineering pioneer captured a nation in transition. 118 Years Later, Japan's Earliest Sound Recordings Still Resonate Copy Link ', content: function () { return $($('.js-BTFNav__popover-content').html()); }, delay: { hide: 100 } }); }) Musicians perform sankyoku, traditional Japanese chamber music, in an undated photograph. CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo In This Story It is February 28, 1903, and 12 musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra are seated in front of a gramophone horn in a Toky...