The Need for Asynchronous Music and the Importance of Tinkering in Inventions

Musical telephone provided the opportunity to enjoy live music asynchronously/nInvention was a byproduct of working on state-of-the-art communication technology and being receptive to chance insights/nInventing things takes time and requires tinkering/nBell invented the telephone while tinkering with acoustic telegraphy, Edison invented the phonograph while tinkering with the telephone/nInitially, telephones were only regarded as instruments to be used by telegraph company