A topic we discussed in class a little while ago ("Ahem", that I was not fully present for) was how we experienced music. When I got there, there were two names on the board, one of them was Berliner and the other was Edison. Edison made the phonograph and Berliner made the gramophone.
It was so interesting when we got to the part of how musical experiences changed over the years. We made a graph of before the 1890s and after the 1890s. I found it eye-opening that there were many ways you could experience music.
I thought it a very scary thought to live in a world where music wasn't mobile and you'd have to pay to go to an orchestra or learn the music to play for yourself, or to literally think about it and that's it. Though in a way it's kind of cool because then you can go and experience the music in a real concert and experience something incredible the first time.
Then again, I would want to experience this and luckily we still get to thanks to orchestras that perform today.
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