ABSTRACT
A recording made at an actual public performance rather than in the studio. In August 1888, recordings of an organ at Westminster Abbey, and at the Crystal Palace in London, were undertaken by Colonel George Gouraud for the Edison Phonograph Co. to demonstrate the utility of the phonograph; parts of Israel in Egypt were inscribed. The Mapleson cylinders of 1901 were the earliest series of live recordings, and the first live recordings made in the U.S.
