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Forgive The Recording Quality, We Just Invented Recording

Contestants Eric Bosworth and Annabel Jones appear on <em>Ask Me Another</em> at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.
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Contestants Eric Bosworth and Annabel Jones appear on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Do not adjust your radio as contestants answer questions about some of the earliest audio recordings ever made.

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Corrected: September 16, 2019 at 11:00 PM CDT
In the original broadcast of this game, we played an early recording created by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville of a musical work that we identified as "Clair de lune," a composition by Claude Debussy. It is actually a similarly titled piece, "Au Claire de la Lune (mon Ami Pierrot)."