telephone. With the first printing of musical scores in the 
sixteenth century, words and music drifted apart. The separate 
virtuosity of voice and instruments became the basis of the 
great musical developments of the eighteenth and nineteenth 
centuries. The same kind of fragmentation and specialism in 
the arts and sciences made possible mammoth results in 
industry and in military enterprise, and in massive cooperative 
enterprises such as the newspaper and the symphony 
orchestra.

     Certainly the phonograph as a product of industrial, 
assembly-line organization and distribution showed little of the 
electric qualities that had inspired its growth in the mind of 
Edison. There were prophets who could foresee the great day 
when the phonograph would aid medicine by providing a 
medical means of discrimination between “the sob of hysteria