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The Don S. McClure Show Live- The Beauty of Music
Music has a way of dealing with every emotion the human body can feel or that the brain can imagine.
Music is the one source that has been used in battle to weddings, to romance to set in motion the joys of the world. Various types and forms of music will always remain one of the most important items in life.
I was told a class a quote that I created, “It was once said that God created music long before he created man and woman it would cleanse their souls.”
Long before sound was first recorded, music was recorded—first by written notation, then also by mechanical devices (e.g., music boxes).
Automatic music reproduction traces back as far as the 9th century, when the Banu Musa brothers invented the earliest known mechanical musical instrument, in this case a hydropowered organ that played interchangeable cylinders. According to Charles B. Fowler, this "...cylinder with raised pins on the surface remained the basic device to produce and reproduce music mechanically until the second half of the nineteenth century.
