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than written languages, so it brought in the entire musical
culture of many centuries and countries. Where before there
had been a narrow selection from periods and composers, the
tape recorder, combined with l.p., gave a full musical spectrum
that made the sixteenth century as available as the nineteenth,
and Chinese folk song as accessible as the Hungarian.
A brief summary of technological events relating to the
phonograph might go this way:
The telegraph translated writing into sound, a fact
directly related to the origin of both the telephone and
phonograph. With the telegraph, the only walls left are the
vernacular walls that the photograph and movie and wirephoto
overleap so easily. The electrification of writing was almost as
big a step into the non-visual and auditory space as the later