Update music_maker.md

Author: bowbahdoe

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 ## Problem Statement
 
-Recordings of audio predate the invention of the modern computer.
-
-The first of recording was done [in 1860 in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville](https://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php). He would later have his glory stolen by Thomas Edison; a common occurrence for the time.
-
-But just as black and white movies don't mean that the past lacked color, people
-have been making sounds and composing those sounds into music [probably the entire history of our species](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElPnD-dbkk).
-
-Computers are generally more convenient for sharing music and recordings than other
-methods we have tried in the past, such as paper and stone tablets, if sometimes
-of lower quality than something like a [vinyl record](https://victrola.com/blogs/articles/does-music-really-sound-better-on-vinyl)[^debate].
-
 Sounds are formed by waves propagating through the air
 at various frequencies. When sound enters your ear [it vibrates your eardrum](https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/how-do-we-hear) which in turn vibrates other parts of your ear ultimately culminating
 in your brain perceiving a sound. The frequencies
 of sound determine in what way your eardrum will vibrate and therefore are what determine how you
 will percieve any given sound.
 
+If you want to recreate a sound you need to in some way record what that sound was.
+The oldest example we have of someone doing this dates back [to a thousands of years old stone tablet.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElPnD-dbkk) The idea being that if someone could read that tablet
+and knew what the symbols on it meant, they could use an instrument of some kind to reproduce the song.
+
+While stone tablets were awesome and paper acceptable for the task, writing down what someone else
+should play only lets you record music. Writing down words similarly doesn't help record
+the sound of someone's voice.[^lincoln]
+
+The first of recording of someone's voice was done [in 1860 in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville](https://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php). He would later have his glory stolen by Thomas Edison; a common occurrence for the time.
+
+Nowadays computers are generally more convenient for sharing music and recordings than other
+methods, if sometimes of lower quality than something like a [vinyl record](https://victrola.com/blogs/articles/does-music-really-sound-better-on-vinyl)[^debate].
+
 Storing audio on a computer requires translating audio information into a form
 that a computer can store. We call this translation step "digitization."
 It requires in some manner storing what frequencies of sounds
 and in what proportion need to be produced to "play back" a sound.
 
-One of the file formats used to store such audio is a "[WAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV)"
-file.
-
 
 ## Your Goal
 
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ will sound like an instrumental version of [Three Blind Mice](https://en.wikiped
 
 As a hint: `byte` and `short` can be helpful when representing "binary formats" like WAV.
 Reading comprehension as well as reading stamina will also be useful for figuring out
-how a WAV file works.
+how a WAV file works. You will need to learn a lot about audio.
 
 ## Future Goals
 
@@ -48,6 +47,8 @@ in turn.
 be "exported" as a WAV file.
 * Support a file format other than WAV as the output.
 
+[^lincoln]: Abraham Lincoln had a really high pitched trill voice apparently. It is a real bummer we don't have recordings.
+
 [^debate]: This is a subject of much debate.
 
 [^haloreach]: When Halo Reach came out there was a lot of internet fighting about the "reticle bloom"