Tui Singing - Great photo from Flickr

great photograph of Tui singing from Flickr - taken by Adam Colley on his site Higher Contrast - he has some lovely photographs of his son Jack - has rediscovered film and old cameras.

Listen to the tui @

http://discover.natlib.govt.nz/view/object/REPO04DB/124

Posting a 1935 NZ Postage Stamp with a tui who may have sung the notes below

a New Zealand sound I enjoy

Bird-Song : and New Zealand Song Birds by Johannes C. Andersen. Published by Whitcombe and Tombs Limited in 1926

oldest recorded sound or ancient audio

A woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune" for 10 seconds , recorded in 1860 is the oldest recorded sound.
Listen @
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7318180.stm

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