>CNN comments on Sean Lennon's interaction with fame because of his famous parents. The last paragraph caught my attention:
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>"I like playing music live for people because it's the way music was meant to be heard," he said. "We've only been recording music for a couple hundred years."
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>Oh really? Couple of hundred??
>Funny.

The first recording was made by Edison in 1877. A few years ago someone found a cylinder recording made around 1878, of flamenco in Spain. This interested me as I have been playing flamenco guitar for over 45 years. The article said that the cylinder could be played 16 times before it was useless. I never heard the end result.

I worked at Ampex in Redwood City, California, as an electronics engineer. Ampex did a great deal for the recording industry. We also had the world’s finest recording museum, which ended up at Stanford University, in boxes.

So I guess you could say with the accuracy of the “younger generation”, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries have had recording. Could that be three centuries rather than “a couple”? I consider a couple to be two. No one else may agree with me as all knowledge seems to be derived from the Internet and I will be damned if I will lookup what a couple means to the experts of today.

Man like pass me some pills! :)