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"Microphones? unclean! unnatural!" "filthy voice stealers!" "sound suckers!" "the devil's trombone!"
These were the cries of filthy uneducated folk back in the early 13th century, little understanding the nature of the device a besuited salesman was grasping in one hand. They ran shrieking from the village, after a few erratic circuits of the bemused salesman, to form a new village deep underground away from new ideas, invention and light. They called themselves the nomicrophones.
The technology of the microphone is rather complicated nowadays but back then they were simply constructed from the squeak boxes of hand-reared and corn-fed
mice. They required a drop or two of
water now and then to keep them moist. The wealthy upperclass all had them, laughing and joking down them with the big booming voices all rich people eventually aquire. These early microphones are valueless because they are so rare nobody believes what they are seeing when they see one, it is as if they were invisible. If you were to put one on a silver cocktail tray at one of your fancy parties, everyone would ignore it. Eventually someone with a highly trained subconscious, say that of a psychic or shamen, might finally see it long enough to grab it and stuff it down their throats assuming it to be a rather dry and chewy canape.
