...and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record for ever.

"In this age of iPods and gigabytes, check out this 1888 recording of a speech made by Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan) after a dinner party introducing Thomas Edison’s “new” phonograph, in which Arthur Sullivan makes a phonographic recording to Edison. This was big. This was amazing stuff in 1888."

John Foster (Accidental Mysteries)