History of Sound on Instagram: "“Jingle Bells” became one of the earliest Christmas songs ever recorded in 1898, captured on an Edison wax cylinder by the Edison Male Quartette. The recording was produced during the very first years of commercial audio, when capturing music required performers to sing directly into large acoustic horns, with no microphones or editing. Around the same period, in 1897, one of the earliest surviving motion pictures documented a simple winter scene: a snowball fight