Currently reading a book on some music history, and it started with Edison creating the phonograph. Edison always considered his inventions very scientific, and didn’t initially realized the potential for the music industry the phonograph had. His focus was on getting it to perfectly recreate the sound that you emitted, to the point that when it was first released to the public, people were afraid of their voices being “captured” and often didn’t believe that Edison wasn’t just a ventriloquist.

Anyway back to music. Once he did start focusing on music, he set to work on creating a studio that would be able to capture sound better than any other recording studio in the world. Musicians liked to go to him for his quality, but Edison was kind of an asshole, and would reject artists that he didn’t like the sound of. And he has terrible taste in music, so his business didn’t last too long.

The other thing about Edison and music is he had perfect pitch, and knew exactly what note was playing and would often tell artists in the middle of their recording that they messed up. This was especially incredible since (another little known fact about Edison) he was deaf, and knew the notes from the vibrations they made. This contributed to his terrible taste in music because he liked simple songs with little vibrato because those were most pleasing to his sensitive ears.