Hey y'all, it's Lavor. On my new fiction show sound detectives, I play an inventor who helps

an unlikely pair of detectives return sounds that are lost to the world. But I want to share a true story of a sound that's been lost to history.

Streaming music on your phone seems like a fairly new invention, but it actually started

with a 200 ton organ back in 1906.

We teamed up with our friends at 99% invisible.

It's a podcast about the unnoticed design that shapes the world we live in.

This is their latest episode, a collection of many stories that weren't quite big enough for a whole episode.

You'll hear about time, measured in decimals, a rogue unlicensed

Italian architect, and the ghost kitchens that power food delivery apps. And then yours truly telling the story of the Tellharmonium.

This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. It's the most wonderful time of the year.

It's mini-story season.

Gather the kids around the fire because we have a year-end mix of short stories about a rogue architect, spooky kitchens, a hundred-year-old

music streaming service, and the crazy way the French tried to make telling time less

crazy. Let's go.

So we are here with producer Chris.

Hey Chris, Hello Roman.

What do you have for us?

Okay, so I've been very into the French Revolution recently.

I know there's been these online trends of people reading up about the Roman Empire, but you know, I'm a little different

I'm kind of zigging where other people are zagging

I don't know if you knew this about me

I didn't I didn't know this I mean why exactly are you reading about the French Revolution

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