The Phonautograph: 1860

On the musical devices involving paper tip this article recently appeared in the NY TImes recounting the successful playback of soundwaves that had been transcribed onto paper by a precursor of Edisons phonograph, created by the little known Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, an early pioneer of sound recording. There's a little .mp3 snippet of the recording here.
Straight outta 1860 y'all!