Sound and Science

Ziele und Wege der Schallanalyse. Zwei Vorträge

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Zeitraffung und –dehnung bei der Tonbandwiedergabe

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Zeitlupe für Sprache und Musik

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XIV. Fuchs-Protokoll, große Freianlage, 28.07.1956 – 11.07.1957

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XIII. Fuchs-Protokoll, 21.01.1956 – 27.07.1956

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XII. Fuchs-Protokoll Freianlage, 28.02.55 – 20.01.1956

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XI. Füchse Tagesprotokolle, 06.05.1955 – 17.08.1955

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X. Fuchs-Protokoll, 23.12.54 – 05.05.1955

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With Camera and Record, Disc 3, Side B: “Fleet Street –  [...]

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With Camera and Record, Disc 3, Side A: “Fleet Street”

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Wired Sounds and Surface Noise: Redoing a 1930 “Tape Recorder”

https://soundandscience.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Redoing-Stille_Sound-and-Science.mp4 In the 1920s, the German engineer Curt Stille developed an electromagnetic wire recorder based on earlier attempts by Valdemar Poulsen in 1900. At the end of  [...]

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Wirbelstrom-Drehmomentmesser für kleine Drehmomente

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Wilhelm Doegen’s recordings in the Lautarchiv

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Wilhelm Doegen’s recordings in the Deutsches Historisches Museum

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Wilhelm Doegen with his technician at the lathe in the recording  [...]

Height x width: 11,9 x 16,8 (Photo) Photo agency: Transocean GmbH Caption: “Doegen bespricht mit seinem Techniker Tempel Änderungen an der Drehbank im Aufn. Raum. 1923”  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen with a shellac record

Height x width: 16,5 x 11,8 cm (Photo)

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Wilhelm Doegen with a pickup developed by himself

Height x width: 17,9 x 12 cm (Photo) Caption: „WilhDoegen mit seiner von ihm konstruierten Aufnahme-Schalldose in dem Arbeitszimmer seines Instituts. 1920“  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen transfers sounds from a record to a oscillograph

Height x width: 16,7 x 22,2 cm (Photo) Caption: “Wilh Doegen macht als Erster die auf der Schallplatte festgelegte Rede [gestrichen: von] und Sprache mit Hilfe des Oszillographen  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen recording the voices of English prisoners of war

Caption: “Stimmaufnahme von Engländern im Göttinger Lager. Links mit d. Text in der Hand: Prof Brandl. – Rechts Prof. Doegen. In der Mitte der Lagerkommandant als Zuhörer”  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen inspects a copper mould of the recording of Hindenburg’s  [...]

“WDoegen untersucht mit dem Vergrößerungsglas die Rillen der Kupfermatrize des Stimmbildes Hindenburgs. 1927”

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Wilhelm Doegen having tea with English prisoners of war

Height x width: 11,9 x 16,6 cm (Photo) Photograph probably taken at a POW-camp during World War I in Quedlinburg  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen examines the grooves of a record

Height x width: 18,4 x 13 cm   Caption: „Wilh Doegen prüft Rillen der Bülow-Platte 1923“  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen examines a record at his institute

Height x width: 9,9 x 15 cm (Photo)   Caption: “Platten-Prüfung d. Prof Doegen (links) in seinem Institut. Links: Techniker Tempel – Mitte: Sekretärin Frl. Unger”  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen during a recording with Professor Schuster (?)

Height x width: 15,9 x 12 cm Caption: „Prof. Schuster(?) spricht über (…?) 1925“  [...]

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Wilhelm Doegen during a recording with Professor Eduard Sievers

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Wilhelm Doegen at his record player

Height x width: 17,8 x 12,9 cm Photographer: Karlheinz Holzhausen Caption: “Wilh Doegen 80 Jahre alt”  [...]

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Whispered vowels: Experimental cylinder from the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

Recorded sounds for phonographic experiments. This is one of five recordings made in 1916 for an experiment that explored changes in sound quality with different recording and  [...]

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WE Record – Actual Live Crow Recording, Side B

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WE Record – Actual Live Crow Recording, Side A

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WE Record – Actual Live Crow Recording

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VSC Variable Speech Control

For explanations please see the brochure “Announcing the Varispeech Machine”: Brochure: Announcing the Varispeech Machine  [...]

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Erich Moritz von Hornbostel

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Vom akustischen Porträt

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Voices of the Loon

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Voiceprint identification (manual)

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Vinyl record, heart beats

The Canadian Physician J.R. McIntosh was the first person to attempt to record and classify heart sounds on phonograph records. The Disc contains a recording of  [...]

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VIII. Fuchs-Protokoll, 18.12.1953 – 12.05.1954

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VII. Fuchs-Protokoll, 31.08.1953 – 17.12.1953

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Victor Picture Disc: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” by The Philadelphia  [...]

One of Robert Irwin’s inspirations as he planned the first AFB Talking Book recordings was a 1932 Picture Disc of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven,” with  [...]

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VI. Fuchs-Protokoll, 22.06.53 – 30.08.1953

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Vergleichende Gehörprüfungen an 100 Individuen mittelst Stimmgabeln, Uhr und Flüstersprache

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Varispeech demonstration by Francis Lee, c. 1972

Francis Lee demonstrating his Varispeech time compression and expansion tape recorder, c. 1972.   Excerpt from Mills and Sterne, “Aural Speed Reading”: “In the early 1970s, Harvey Lauer became one  [...]

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V. Fuchs-Protokoll (II), 11.03.53 – 22.06.1953

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Untersuchungen über die sogenannten ‘Knochenleitungen’ und deren Verhältnis zur Schallfortpflanzung durch  [...]

See also: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ShsBAAAAYAAJ/page/n311/mode/2up  [...]

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Untersuchungen über die Schwingungen einer Normalstimmgabel

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Ueber vortheilhafte Einrichtung eines Locals für gute Wirkung des Schalles

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Ueber eine neue Methode das Aluminium und einige andere einfache Körper  [...]

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Ueber die Sirene

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Ueber die höchsten hörbaren und unhörbaren Töne, part 1

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Ueber die Empfindlichkeit des Gehörorgans

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Ueber die Definition des Tones

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Ueber den Ursprung der Stösse und Stosstöne bei harmonischen Intervallen

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Ueber das Fehlerhafte und Willkührliche in der alten griechischen Musik

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Ueber Combinationstöne

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Übungsbuch für Stotternde

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Über Klänge mit ungleichförmigen Wellen

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Über die Natur der Musik

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Über die Grenzen der Tonwahrnehmung

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Über die Beobachtung der Luftschwingungen in Orgelpfeifen

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Über den Zusammenklang zweier Töne

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Über Aufbau und Zweck des Informationswandlers

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U.S. Patent 2,922,999

Filed: April 17, 1956 Patented: January 26, 1960

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Tuning forks owned by the Media Archaeological Fundus

This picture shows a tuning fork, a mechanical device traditionally used to create a stable reference frequency. When the tuning fork is set in motion by  [...]

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Tubatulabal Sound Recording

Tubatalabal recording made by J. P. Harrington. For more on the Smithsonian’s “Indigenous Voices” project in 2019, the UN’s Year of Indigenous Languages, see https://www.si.edu/spotlight/native-voices  [...]

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Traité d’acoustique

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Track: “Solo Whale,” Humpback Whale Album

The recording has been provided by the Naval History and Heritage Command. A digital version of the album can be purchased under the following link: https://shop.whale.org/products/songs-of-the-humpback-whale-digital-download. Here you can find more  [...]

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Track: “Distant Whale,” Humpback Whale Album

The recording has been provided by the Naval History and Heritage Command. A digital version of the album can be purchased under the following link: https://shop.whale.org/products/songs-of-the-humpback-whale-digital-download. Here you can find more  [...]

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Tonsystem und Musik der Siamesen

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Tonometrische Untersuchungen an einem deutschen Volkslied

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Toelichting van de motor- en rijwielcommissie bij het ontwerp-besluit tot nadere  [...]

Explanation by the motor and bicycle commission of the draft-decision for the further modification of the motor and bicycle regulation

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Theorie der Luftschwingungen in Röhren mit offenen Enden

Original Publication: Journal für die reine und angewandte Physik 57, no. 1 (1860): 1-72.

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The Wrens

Featuring recording by BEN B. COFFREY JR. and others by Charles Hartshorne, Paul Schwartz, William Gunn, Michael Gochfield, Luis Baptista, Richard Bradley, John Arvin, John Fitzpatrick,  [...]

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The Webster Chicago wire recorder

This set of pictures shows the Webster Chicago wire recorder (model 80-1) and related accessories, including a microphone, a collection of reels from different sources, and  [...]

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The Tefifon tape player

The Tefifon is an audio player that uses cartridges containing plastic tape with a vertical arrangement of grooves representing sound. It is a branch of analog  [...]

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The subjective effects of first reflections in concert Halls – The  [...]

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The Promise of a Philology of the Ear

Around 1900, the Leipzig Germanist Eduard Sievers and his students gave new value to the auditory and phonetic aspects of written documents. With considerable methodological effort  [...]

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The Making of the Voice Highways

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The history of the Royal Society of London. Volume 4

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The history of the Royal Society of London. Volume 2

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The history of the Royal Society of London. Volume 1

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The essentials of phonetics

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 7

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 5

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 4

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 2

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 15

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 14

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 13

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 11

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 10

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The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 1

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The AT&T Archives and History Center

The AT&T Archives and History Center contains a sprawling collection of material from the company’s corporate and research activities extending back to the origins of the  [...]

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The actor Alexander Moissi during a voice recording

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Temporalizing Space through Sound and Movement

​In 1948, Günter Tembrock (1918–2011) established the Forschungsstätte für Tierpsychologie (Research Centre for Animal Psychology), which would become an important nexus for behavioral biology in the  [...]

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Technical drawing of the “Doegen-Lauthalter” (blueprint)

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Symphonion music box

First produced in 1886 by a company in Leipzig, the Symphonion music box was a commercially successful model of a music box with exchangeable disks. Despite  [...]

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Subject File from the Archives of the Languages of the World,  [...]

President’s Office Record from Indiana University, ca. 1954. “Archives of the Languages of the World, circa 1954” file, Indiana University President’s Office records, Collection C213.30, Indiana University  [...]

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Carl Stumpf

Stumpf studied at the University of Würzburg—first aesthetics and law, and later philosophy with Franz Brentano. Because Brentano had not completed the qualifications allowing him to  [...]

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Stumpf Papers: [Stumpf, Carl], [Untitled folder]. [Envelope] 5. Diagramme zu den  [...]

Includes a letter from Felix Stumpf.  [...]

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Stumpf Papers: [Stumpf, Carl], [Folder] 11a, [Zur Analyse der Konsonanten]

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Stumpf Papers: [Carl Stumpf], [Envelope] 1

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Studien über das Tonsystem und die Musik der Japaner

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H.J.L. Struycken

H. J. L. Struycken was a Dutch otolaryngologist, phonetician, and acoustician. After studying medicine in Groningen, in 1893 he started working at the Voorburg psychiatric hospital  [...]

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Stimmgabel mit veränderlichem Tone

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Stentor hyaloklastes sive De Scypho Vitreo per certum humanae vocis sonum  [...]

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Sprech- und Lehrproben

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Special Purpose Tape Recorder

The Special Purpose Tape Recorder (or Multi-track) was the first studio-oriented instrument designed by Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine and built in the National Research Council  [...]

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Sounds of Nature Vol. 8

From the Federation of Ontario Naturalists Sounds of Nature series with recordings by Donald J. Borror and William W. H. Gunn. In association with the Cornell  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 2C

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 2 D

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 1D

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 1C

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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Sound Archiving and Discipline Formation in Berlin around 1900

Sound is ephemeral. For a long time, it escaped scientific scrutiny, and the invention of the phonograph in the 1870s was celebrated as a long-awaited research  [...]

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Sony PCM 3324S digital 24-track tape recorder

These pictures show the multitrack reel-to-reel tape machine Sony PCM 3324S. It can store up to twenty-four channels of sound, facilitating the extensive editing and mixing  [...]

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Songs of wild birds. Two discs

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Songs of wild birds. Disc 2, Side B (E.7773)

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Songs of wild birds. Disc 2, Side A (E.7774)

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Songs of wild birds. Disc 1, Side B (E.7772)

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Songs of wild birds. Disc 1, Side A (E.7771)

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Songs of wild birds

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Songs of the Humpback Whale

A digital version of the album can be purchased under: https://shop.whale.org/products/songs-of-the-humpback-whale-digital-download. More information and details about the history of the Songs of the Humpback Whale album can be found under  [...]

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Songs of British Birds No.2

Published in collaboration with the BBC The illustrations of a Green Woodpecker and a Song Thrush on the sleeve are reproduced from Roger Peterson’s “A Field Guide  [...]

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Songs of British Birds No.1

Published in collaboration with the BBC The illustrations of a Green Woodpecker and a Song Thrush on the sleeve are reproduced from Roger Peterson’s “A Field Guide  [...]

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Songs and Calls of Our Native Birds No. 3

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 rpm

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Song of a Thrush (45057-B)

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Song of a Sprosser (45058-A)

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Song of a Nightingale, No. 2 (45057-A)

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Sonde

The Sonde is a studio-oriented musical instrument designed by Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine and built in the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Electronic Music  [...]

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Smith Fox Call Record – Live Grey Fox Distress Call

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Shellac: A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

This illustrated pamphlet gives us a poetically inflected account of shellac and its long history, from its early days and traditional usages in India to its  [...]

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Scientific Listening in the Field

Chip-chip-chip-chwee-chwee-tissi-chooeeo! These nonsense syllables have traditionally been used to capture the simple Chaffinch song, often to the despair of both novice birdwatchers and expert ornithologists. It  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 6: Dr. André Moles (Paris): Experimente mit dem Alibis-Terzfilter  [...]

Published as supplement to issue 6 of the Gravesaner Blätter.  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 6: Dr. André Moles (Paris): Experimente mit dem Alibis-Terzfilter  [...]

Published as supplement to issue 6 of the Gravesaner Blätter.  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 5: Nachhallexperimente des holländisches Staatsradios – B

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Schallplatte Heft 5: Nachhallexperimente des holländisches Staatsradios – A

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Schallplatte Heft 4: Klangumwandlungen durch Frequenzumsetzung – B

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Schallplatte Heft 4: Klangumwandlungen durch Frequenzumsetzung – A

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Schallplatte Heft 22: Akustische Kuriosa – B

Record: “Akustische Kuriosa”, Gravesaner Blätter, ML 271, Side B

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Schallplatte Heft 22: Akustische Kuriosa – A

Record: “Akustische Kuriosa”, Gravesaner Blätter, ML 271, Side A

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Schallplatte Heft 21: Die Bedeutung der Lautstärkeempfindung, ihre Messung und Beurteilung  [...]

Published as supplement to issue 21 of the Gravesaner Blätter.

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Schallplatte Heft 21: Die Bedeutung der Lautstärkeempfindung, ihre Messung und Beurteilung  [...]

Published as supplement to issue 21 of the Gravesaner Blätter.

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Schallplatte Heft 2/3: Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Der Einfluß des Mikrophons auf  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 2/3: Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Der Einfluß des Mikrophons auf  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 19/20: Ähnlichkeitsklassen bei Schallsignalen – A

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Schallplatte Heft 19/20: 9 Klänge im Jahre 1942 eingeschmolzener altösterreichischer Kirchenglocken  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 18: Syrischer und armenischer Gottesdienst – B

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Schallplatte Heft 18: Glockengeläute Jerusalemer Kirchen – A

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Schallplatte Heft 17: Pierre Schaeffer, Paris – B

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Schallplatte Heft 17: Pierre Schaeffer, Paris – A

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Schallplatte Heft 14: Das Residualton und Formantton– B

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Schallplatte Heft 14: Das Residualton und Formantton– A

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Schallplatte Heft 13: Das Teiltonspektrum einer Glocke – B

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Schallplatte Heft 13: Das Teiltonspektrum einer Glocke – A

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Schallplatte Heft 1: Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Ein akustischer Zeitraffer – Side  [...]

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Schallplatte 2 Heft 27/28: Tautologos 1, Lucien Ferrari – B

Schallplatte 2 Heft 27/28, 1965: Recording 2 Side B: “Tautologos 1, Lucien Ferrari” EPML 48 (7 PAL 2870-ST) See also: http://keestazelaar.com/share/gravesaner-blatter/  [...]

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Schallplatte 2 Heft 27/28: Soleil Rogeux F.B. Mâche – A

Schallplatte 2 Heft 27/28, 1965: A-Seite:“Soleil Rougeux, F. B. Mâche” EPML 48 (7 PAL 2869-ST) See also: http://keestazelaar.com/share/gravesaner-blatter/  [...]

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Schallplatte 2 Heft 26, 1965: Computer Music – B

Schallplatte 2 Heft 26, 1965: EP ML 372A/B Seite 1: “Computer Music” Seite 2: “Masquerades”  [...]

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Schallplatte 2 Heft 26, 1965: Computer Music – A

Schallplatte 2 Heft 26, 1965: EP ML 372A Seite 1: “Computer Music” Seite 2: “Masquerades”  [...]

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Schallplatte 2 Heft 23/24, 1962: Klangbeispiele mit dem Computer (Digitalrechner) –  [...]

Heft 23/24 VI. Jahrgang 1962: Schallplatte 2: “Klangbeispiele mit dem Compiuter (Digitalrechner)” ML 309 A/B B-Seite: 2. Teil  [...]

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Schallplatte 2 Heft 23/24, 1962: Klangbeispiele mit dem Computer (Digitalrechner) –  [...]

Heft 23/24 VI. Jahrgang 1962: Schallplatte 2: “Klangbeispiele mit dem Computer (Digitalrechner)” ML 309 A/B A-Seite: 1. Teil  [...]

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Schallplatte 1 Heft 27/28, 1965: Raumakustische Modellversuche – B

Schallplatte 1 Heft 27/28, November 1965: “Raumakustische Modellversuche” EPML 47 (7 PAL 2711/12-ST) Sprache / Musik / Flatterecho Ultrason-Aufnahme v. Prof. Spandöck, Labor für Akustik, techn. Physik, technische  [...]

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Schallplatte 1 Heft 27/28, 1965: Raumakustische Modellversuche – A

Schallplatte 1 Heft 27/28, November 1965: “Raumakustische Modellversuche” EPML 47 (7 PAL 2711/12-ST) Sprache / Musik / Flatterecho Ultrason-Aufnahme v. Prof. Spandöck, Labor für Akustik, techn. Physik, technische  [...]

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Schallplatte 1 Heft 26, 1965: Jannis Xenakis ST/4 – 1.080262

Schallplatte 1, Heft 26, 1965: “Jannis Xenakis – ST/4 – 1.080262” EPML 372 A/B

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Pierre Schaeffer

Son of a musician and a voice teacher, Pierre Schaeffer received a Catholic education, practiced theater as a boy scout, and learned to play the cello  [...]

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Rotfuchs-Protokoll große Freianlage (+ kleine Freianlage), 12.07.1957 – 03.03.1959

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Rotfuchs-Protokoll große + kleine Freianlage, 04.03.1959 – 21.09.1963 + Polarfuchs, 21.04.1960-05.09.1961

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Rotfuchs-Protokoll + Korsaks (ab 18.4.64), 23.09.1963 – 24.04.1967

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Friedrichkarl Roedemeyer

Friedrichkarl (also spelled Friedrich-Karl) Roedemeyer was born in 1894 and trained as a pharmacist, but later turned to linguistics and radio studies. Roedemeyer served in the German  [...]

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Résumé, Wilhelm Doegen, 1910

Height x width: 32,5 x 21 cm

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Recording: George Bernard Shaw, Spoken English and Broken English – Two

George Bernard Shaw, Spoken English and Broken English (London: Linguaphone, 1927). Second of Two 78 RPM records  [...]

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Recording: George Bernard Shaw, Spoken English and Broken English – One

George Bernard Shaw, Spoken English and Broken English (London: Linguaphone, 1927). Second of Two 78 RPM records  [...]

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Recording: Demonstration of the JAWS screen reader

Shafeka Hashash demonstrates the JAWS screen reader at its 60% speed setting. Explanation: Quote from: https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/ “JAWS, Job Access With Speech, is the world’s most popular screen reader, developed for computer users whose  [...]

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Recording the vibrations of tuning forks

This video demonstrates the principle of recording the vibrations of tuning forks. A small glass sheet is covered in a layer of black carbon, using the fumes  [...]

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Recording of Wendish spinning song “The Lily”

Erich v. Hornbostel, Recording of Wendish spinning song “The Lily,” (sung by Christine Marak, March 3, 1907), in: Susanne Ziegler, Die Wachszylinder des Berliner Phonogramm-Archivs. (Berlin:  [...]

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Recording of the drum language of the Duala from Cameroon in  [...]

Height x width: 12 x 16,3 cm (Photo) Photo agency: Continental Photo  [...]

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Recording of the drum language of the Duala from Cameroon in  [...]

Height x width: 14 x 11,2 cm (Photo) Caption: “Trommelsprache – Laut-Aufnahme eines Duala Negers [sic!] in der Lautabt. d. Preuss. Staatsbibliothek 1921 – rechts: Prof. Heepe  [...]

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Recording of Macuxi women singing while producing manioc beer (1911)

Theodor Koch-Grünberg’s recording of Macuxi women singing while producing manioc beer (1911). Track 17 from: Walzenaufnahmen aus Brasilien (1911–1913): Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv; Historische Klangdokumente, ed. Lars-Christian Koch and  [...]

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Reconstructing a Studio

When the musician Oskar Sala, co-developer and only player of the electronic instrument Trautonium, died on February 26, 2002, aged ninety-one, he had long since settled  [...]

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Raoul Falaise, chief engineer, recording in the makeshift booth

Raoul Falaise, chief engineer, recording, Beaune, 1942.  [...]

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Questions harmoniques

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Quelques expériences d’acoustique

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Publicatie No. 67 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 58 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 56a van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 56 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 26 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 19 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 13 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Publicatie No. 1 van de Geluidstichting

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Program cassettes

This picture shows compact cassettes storing computer-readable information (programs and data) encoded as audio signals. This kind of storage was popular in home computing in the  [...]

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Professor Gruetzmacher (Braunschweig): Das Teilspektrum der Glocke – Side B

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Professor Gruetzmacher (Braunschweig): Das Teilspektrum der Glocke – Side A

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Principes de Phonoautographie

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Postcard: In the Lautinstitute’s recording studio at the Prussian State Library

Height x width: 13,7 x 8,7 cm

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Postcard showing Wilhelm Doegen in the Lautinstitute’s recording studio

Height x width: 8,7 x 13,7 cm

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Polarfüchse-Protokoll kleine Freianlage, 08.11.1956-01.04.1960

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Pierre Schaeffer’s Microphones (1942)

From mid-September to mid-October 1942, Pierre Schaeffer (32) and theater director Jacques Copeau (63) co-directed a training course in Beaune (Burgundy, France): young actors were trained  [...]

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Picture of a Recording of an Auditory Test No. W-22

Picture taken from a recording in the personal collection of Mara Mills.

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Piano sounds are transferred to an oscillograph in the recording studio  [...]

Height x width: 17,8 x 23,8 cm (Photo) Caption: „Die Klänge eines Klaviers werden zur ersten Prüfung über Mikrophon auf einen eben angeschafften Oszillographen sichtbar gemacht. Der Musiker ein  [...]

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Photograph of the “Doegen-Lauthalter”

“Doegen-Lauthalter; d. Reichspatents Nr 447394 am 17. Mai 1924 geschützt. Der Lauthalter hält alle Einzellaute v. Sprache u. Musik zum Lautstudium fest.”  [...]

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 9 (2)

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 9 (1)

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 8 (2)

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 8 (1)

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 7

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 6

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 5

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 4

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 3

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 21

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 20

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 2

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 19

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 18

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 17

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 16

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 15

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 14

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 13

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 12 (2)

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 12 (1)

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 11

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 10

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Phonographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 1

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Phonographische Methoden

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Phonographierte türkische Melodien

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Phonographierte indische Melodien

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Phonographierte Indianermelodien aus British Columbia

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Phonogramm-Archiv (Berlin)

Today the Phonogramm-Archiv (“phonogram archive”) encompasses around 150,000 sound recordings; it also holds textual and photographic documents and some historical recording and playback devices. Initiated in  [...]

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Philips cartridge

This picture shows a large cartridge holding magnetic tape. It is described on the front as “Philips Functional Music Tempo T151.” Much larger than the consumer-oriented  [...]

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Personal information forms from the Lautarchiv collection

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording PK 1695

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording PK 1679

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 731

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 637

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 636

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 567

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 566

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 565

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 1187

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 1186

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording Aut 66

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording Aut 65

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Patent document no. 447 394 for the “Doegen-Lauthalter”

Height x width: 27,5 x 18,4 cm  [...]

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Patent certificate for the “Doegen-Lauthalter”

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Parabolic microphone

The parabolic microphone uses a parabolic reflector to collect and focus sound waves onto a receiver, ensuring great directional sensitivity along the axis to which the  [...]

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On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the  [...]

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On the Pneumatic Action

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On the musical scales of various nations

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On musical duodenes

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Offenlegungsschrift 2023 377

Offenlegungsschrift 2023 377 des deutschen Patentamts, 1971: Verfahren zur räumlichen Wiedergabe von Schallsignalen mittels Lautsprecher und Vorrichtung zu seiner Durchführung.

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Offenlegungsschrift 1927 401

Offenlegungsschrift 1927 401 des deutschen Patentamts, 1970: Verfahren zur hörrichtigen Aufnahme und Wiedergabe von Schallereignissen und Vorrichtung zu seiner Durchführung.  [...]

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Nuovi ritrovamenti

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Notes about the transmission of news – Side B

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Notes about the transmission of news – Side A

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Neues zu den Rutzschen Reaktionen

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Nachrichten von neueren Untersuchungen der Stimm- und Singwerkzeuge

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Nachrichten von einigen theils wirklichen, theils vielleicht nur angeblichen neuen Erfindungen

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Nachricht von einer neuen Art von Blasinstrument

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Musurgia universalis. Tomus I (Liber I-VII)

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Musik der Makuschi, Taulipdng und Yekuand

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More songs of wild birds. Three discs

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More songs of wild birds. Disc 3, Side A (E.8473)

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More songs of wild birds. Disc 2, Side B (E.8484)

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More songs of wild birds. Disc 2, Side A (E.8535)

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More songs of wild birds. Disc 1, Side B (E.8536)

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More songs of wild birds. Disc 1, Side A (E.8471)

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More songs of wild birds

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MN-61 wire recorder

This picture shows the Soviet military wire recorder MN-61. It belongs to the same group of electromagnetic wire recorders as the Webster Chicago recorder and the Minifon P55. As  [...]

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Mit Kamera und Lautplatte durch England

English title: With Camera and Record throughout England Contents: Paddington Station-London, D1 At Paddington Station – Conversation, D1 A Railway Excursion, D2 Fleet Street, D3 Fleet Street – Conversation, D3 The London Underground  [...]

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Mit Kamera und Lautplatte durch England

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Minifon P55 portable wire recorder

This picture shows the Minifon P55 portable recorder, produced by the Protona company in Hamburg, Germany. It belongs to the same group of electromagnetic wire recorders  [...]

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Mimicking the Voices of Nature

Early European settlers brought firearm technology to waterfowl hunting in the Americas. In the late eighteenth century, market hunting of the goose and duck flocks of  [...]

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Media Archaeological Fundus

The Media Archaeological Fundus (Medienarchäologischer Fundus, or MAF) is a collection of teaching and working materials held at the media theory department of the Humboldt-Universität zu  [...]

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Manuscript: “Zur Geschichte des Lautarchivs”

Height x width: 29,6 x 20,8 cm

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Magnemite magnetic tape recorder

In 1952, the Amplifier Corporation of America launched one of the first clockwork-driven tape recorders, ushering in a new era of battery-operated, small, and lightweight portable  [...]

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Listening to the Archive

This Special Issue of Technology and Culture asks how new technologies for recording and archiving sounds impacted on scientific research and academic infrastructures from the late nineteenth century on.  [...]

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List of Doegen’s publications and achievements

Height x width: 29,7 x 20,8 cm  [...]

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Life of Wilhelm Doegen

Height x width: 29,7 x 21 cm Year: 1951

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Lieder der Bellakula-Indianer

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Letter from von Hornbostel to Schünemann

Prussian Phonographic Commission, 1916, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lautarchiv, HZK, Sign. Pn. 1003 / 5

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Les préludes de l’harmonie universelle

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Le Problème de La Parole s’Écrivant Elle-Même (1878)

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Le Istitutioni harmoniche

Link: https://archive.org/details/leistitutionihar00zarl/page/200/mode/2up  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording PK 1695 – “Lyrik – PK 2695/6”

Title: Friedrich Hölderlin: Abbitte, 1st verse (No 19 and 20) Label: a) [handwriting, ink:] Roedemeyer, 1925, [printed:] Institut für Lautforschung a.d. Universität Berlin, Sprachaufnahme; b) F.K. Roedemeyer, P.K. 1695, Berlin  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording PK 1679/2 – “Das Künstlerische Sprechen / Eigenrede”

Label: a) [handwriting, black ink:] F. K. Roedenmeyer, Das Künstler. Sprechen, 1) Eigenverf. Brief, 2) Eigenrede, 3) Brief Roedenmeyer, 4) Brief La Roche, (Sprecher: 1.3) La Roche,  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 718/3 – “Wenker’sche Sätze”

Label: a) [handwriting, lead pencil:] LA 718, [handwriting, black ink:] E. Bohm. Meine Aufnahme i. d. Irrenanstalt. Sätze b) [handwriting:] LA 718, Berlin 14. 6.1926, WilhDoegen [Autograph], Erwin  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 637 – Giese, Fritz: “Abstrakte akustische Zeichen…”

Label: a) [handwriting, lead pencil:] LA 637; [handwriting, ink:] Abstrakte akust. Zeichen unter dauernden Störungsreizen für psychotechn. Eignungsauslese (nach Prof. Giese, Techn. Hochschule Stuttgart) Zeichen werden gegeben  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 636 – Doegen, Wilhelm: “Zahlenreihen und Wörter…”

Label: a) [handwriting, lead pencil:] LA 636; [handwriting, ink:] Zahlenreihen + Wörter für psychothechn. Eignungsauslese bei dauernden Störungsreizen (nach Prof. Giese, Techn. Hochschule Stuttgart) Sprecher: Prof. Wilh.  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 567/1 – Siebs, Theodor: “O-Laute”

Label: a) [handwriting, ink:] Lt 567, Die Laute der deutschen Hochsprache in Beispielen, -o, -ö, -u, -ü Laute, Diphtonge -ai, -ei, -ou, -au, -eu (nach Siebs) b) Theodor  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 566/2 – Siebs, Theodor: “E-Laute”

Label: a) [handwriting, ink:] LA 566, Die Laute der deutschen Hochsprache in Beispielen, a – e – i – Laute, (nach Siebs); b) [handwriting:] Theodor Siebs, LA 566,  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 566/1 – Siebs, Theodor: “A-Laute”

Label: a) [handwriting, ink:] LA 566, Die Laute der deutschen Hochsprache in Beispielen, a – e – i – Laute, (nach Siebs) b) [handwriting:] Theodor Siebs, LA 566,  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 565 – Siebs, Theodor: “Die Bedeutung der Bühnenausspache…”

Label: a) [printed:] Institut für Lautforschung a.d. Universität Berlin, Sprachaufnahme, [handwriting, ink:] LA 565 Vortragsplatte, Th. Siebs: Die Bedeutung der Bühnenaussprache für d. Entwicklung d. [nearly illegible,  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 1187 – “Polizeibericht 2. Teil”

Label: a) [handwriting, lead pencil:] LA 1187; b) [printed:] La 1187; [handwriting:] LA 1187, Berlin v. 7.01.1931, T. H II, unreadable [autograph], unreadable [autograph] Further recordings are available through  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording LA 1186 – “Polizeibericht 1. Teil”

Label: a) [handwriting, lead pencil:] LA 1187 b) [printed:] La 1187; [handwriting:] LA 1187, Berlin v. 7.01.1931, T. H II, unreadable [autograph], unreadable [autograph] Further recordings are available  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording Aut 66 – “Eduard Sievers, Lesung”

Continuation and End of Autophone 64 and 65 Further recordings are available through the Lautarchiv collection.  [...]

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Lautarchiv Recording Aut 65 – “Eduard Sievers, Lesung”

Continuation of Autophone 64 Further recordings are available through the Lautarchiv collection.  [...]

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Lautarchiv

What is today known as the Lautarchiv (“sound archive”), based at the Humboldt University, Berlin, contains the remaining traces of almost a century’s endeavors in sound  [...]

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Lässt sich das Restgehör für tiefe Frequenzen dazu verwenden, dass durch  [...]

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Kymograph

The kymograph could create visual representations of measurements carried out over a certain period of time, and played an important role in physiology, acoustics, and other  [...]

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Kurt Schwitters spricht „Anna Blume“

Recording of Kurt Schwitters, contributed by Prof. Dr. Arnulf Kutsch

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Kultur und Schallplatte

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Peter Paul Kellogg

Peter Paul Kellogg was professor of ornithology and biological acoustics at Cornell University. Together with Arthur Allen and Albert Brand, he developed new techniques and instruments  [...]

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Katalog der Lautbibliothek

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Jaarverslagen [annual reports]_NEDERLANDS AKOESTISCH GENOOTSCHAP_Jaarverslag 1972

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Jaarverslagen [annual reports]_NEDERLANDS AKOESTISCH GENOOTSCHAP_Jaarverslag 1971

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Jaarverslagen [annual reports]_NEDERLANDS AKOESTISCH GENOOTSCHAP_Jaarverslag 1969

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Jaarverslagen [annual reports]_NEDERLANDS AKOESTISCH GENOOTSCHAP_Jaarverslag 1965

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Jaarverslagen [annual reports]_GELUIDSTICHTING_Twee-jaarlijks verslag 1960–1961

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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IX. Fuchs-Protokoll, 13.05.1954 – 22.12.1954

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IV: Fuchs-Protokoll, 01.01.1953 – 10.03.1953

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Inventory report of the Institut für Lautforschung

Height x width: 29,5 x 21 cm

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Internationales Zentralblatt für experimentelle Phonetik VOX, Vol. 32

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Internationales Zentralblatt für Experimentelle Phonetik VOX, Vol. 27

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Inscription Automatique des Sons de l’Air au Moyen d’une Oreille Artificielle  [...]

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How Shellac Records Are Made

This promotional video from the US firm RCA Victor shows us the different steps of manufacturing a shellac-based gramophone disc in the early 1940s.  [...]

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Historical Devices Owned by the Audio Communication Group, Technische Universität Berlin

The holdings of the Audio Communication Group of the Technische Universität Berlin (TU) go back to the 1950s and 1960s. This is a considerable length of  [...]

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Herrmann Scherchen (Gravesano): Anwendung elektroakustischer Musik für den Film von Oskar  [...]

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Herrmann Scherchen (Gravesano): Anwendung elektroakustischer Musik für den Film von Oskar  [...]

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Nachhallexperimente des holländischen Staatsradios – Side B

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Nachhallexperimente des holländischen Staatsradios – Side A

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Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin-Charlottenburg Saal 1, Großer Sendesaal in Bauteil 1

Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin-Charlottenburg Saal 1, Großer Sendesaal in Bauteil 1. Foto auf Papier 17,5 x 22,4 cm.

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Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin-Charlottenburg Perspektivische Ansicht Saal 1 (von Inv.Nr. 4926)

Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin-Charlottenburg Perspektivische Ansicht Saal 1 (von Inv.Nr. 4926). Kreide und Buntstift über Lichtpause 80,9 x 123,8 cm.

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Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin-Charlottenburg Ausführungsprojekt, großer Lichthof, perspektivische Ansicht aus dem  [...]

Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin-Charlottenburg Ausführungsprojekt, großer Lichthof, perspektivische Ansicht aus dem 1. OG 1:100. Bleistift auf Transparent 71 x 43,3 cm.

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Harmonie universelle, contenant la théorie et la pratique de la musique

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Handmade paper waterfall plot: Mississippi

This photograph shows a three-dimensional representation of sound using paper. The spectrum (frequencies from low to high) is represented by an arrangement of single strips of  [...]

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Handmade paper waterfall plot: Beethoven’s 8th symphony

This photograph shows a three-dimensional representation of sound using paper. The spectrum (frequencies from low to high) is represented by an arrangement of single strips of  [...]

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Hand-drawn circuit of a singing and speaking arc for the Istituto  [...]

Printed information: “Ditta Alberto dall’Eco (Ing. Giorgio Santarelli, Successore) Firenze 10 – Via Giotto – 10 Officina di strumenti di precisione Medaglia d’oro di 1° Grado all’Espositizione Internazionale d’Elettricità di Como deposito di materiali  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings V

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings IV

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings III

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings II

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings I

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Gutzmann, offprints 1910

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Gravesano, Mai 1956

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Gravesaner Blätter, Heft 29

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Gravesaner Blätter Jahrgang VI, Heft 21

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero  [...]

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Gravesaner Blätter Jahrgang V, Heft 22

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Gravesaner Blätter Jahrgang II, Heft 6

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Gravesaner Blätter – Recordings

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Gravesaner Blätter

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Graphie du Son (1857)

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Gott grüsse das ehrsame Handwerk – Schallplatte

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Gespräch über Theodor Storm

„Die Tochter Theodor Storms spricht über die Beziehung zu ihrem Vater, sie erzählt von gemeinsamen Abenden, an denen Storm seiner Familie vorlas, und von der Feier  [...]

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Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde, Vol. 2

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Gefiederte Meistersänger

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Gedruckte Schaltungen für Neuartige Fernhörer und zur Steuerung von Erdsatelliten

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Funkentelegraphie für Flugzeuge

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Flüsterelemente in semitischen Sprachen

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Floor plan of the Haus des Rundfunks

Floor plan of the buildings differentiation by color the different programs. 1:100 Size: 100,5 x 166,9 cm  [...]

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Five pages (one crossed out) of the Totenklage (tâmbi song)

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Explanation of the electrical information storage – Side B

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Explanation of the electrical information storage – Side A

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Experimental recording: Otto Abraham, Wagner Motive

Intonationsprobe. Prof. E[dinger, Frankfurt]: Wagner-Motive. (Experimentalwalzen, No. 20).  [...]

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Experimental recording: Otto Abraham, Intonationsprobe Prof. E

Intonationsprobe. Prof. E[dinger, Frankfurt]: 1. Kommt ein Vogel geflogen, 2. Hier sind wir versammelt.  [...]

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Experimental recording: Otto Abraham, Hornbostel Intonationsprobe 14

Intonationsprobe. [Erich M. von] Hornbostel auf E-Dur: 1. Deutschland, 2. [?], 3. Deutschland tief, 4. idem hoch. Phonograph cylinder. (The recording was made during studies by Otto  [...]

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Experimental recording: Otto Abraham, Hornbostel Intonationsprobe 13 (September 11, 1907)

Ansage am Anfang nennt anderes Aufnahmedatum ( “7.Dezember” ). Informationen auf der Dosenunterseite: “Inton.probe 13 Hornb. 11.Sept. 07” (mit Bleistift geschrieben), “Hornbostel Deutschland ges. u. gepf.”  [...]

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokale 5 (Part II) (May 1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokale 5 (Part I) (May 1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokale 4 (May 1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokale 3

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokale 2 (May 1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokale 1 (May 1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Vokalaufnahmen Dr. Pfungst (April 4, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Versuchswalze

Experimental subject: Carl Stumpf (?). Intonation test, Reiterlied from “Wallenstein” (Friedrich Schiller, musical version: Christian Jakob Zahn), sung and whistled.  [...]

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Swindel Maultrommel 3 (1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Swindel Maultrommel 2 (1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Swindel Maultrommel 1 (Part II) (1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Swindel Maultrommel 1 (Part I) (1916)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Gibbon No. 3 (April 16, 1912)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Gibbon No. 2 (April 16, 1912)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Gibbon No. 1 (April 16, 1912)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Experimentalwalzen (Part III) (August 1, 1914)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Experimentalwalzen (Part I) (August 1, 1914)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don VII (February 19, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don VI (February 19, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don V (February 19, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don IV (December 21, 1910)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don IV (April 2, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don III (February 18, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don III (December 21, 1910)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don II (February 18, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don I (February 18, 1911)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Don I (December 21, 1910)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Discurso Don Lucio Delgado (Part II)

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Experimental recording: Carl Stumpf, Discurso Don Lucio Delgado (Part I)

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Experimental record: Carl Stumpf, Experimentalwalzen (Part II) (August 1, 1914)

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Experimental cylinders from the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv (ca. 1907–1916)

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Sigmund Exner

Sigmund Exner is known for his work in comparative physiology and his studies of perception psychology from a physiological standpoint. He conducted important research on the localization of behavioral functionality  [...]

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Exemplary Günter Tembrock protocol on fox behavior

View of an exemplary daily protocol of the lab animal’s behavior feat. notes on sound recording (1957).

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Excelsior Phonograph

This Excelsior phonograph is a model based on the Edison phonograph and produced by the Excelsiorwerke Cöln factory in Cologne, Germany, between 1903 and 1906. The  [...]

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Ein Verfahren zur Sprachbandkompression

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Eduard Sievers und die Sprachmelodie

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Ear Phonautograph (Reconstruction)

This instrument is a reconstruction of Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake’s ear phonautograph: an 1874 curiosity that used an excised human middle ear to  [...]

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Doegens Auswahl englischer Gedichte. Disc 2, Side B

Disc 2, Side B: The charge of the light brigade / Tennyson, Gesprochen von W. J. Holloway, Lyceum Theatre, London, A 56034   Number: 001999 hu, 002037 hu  [...]

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Doegens Auswahl englischer Gedichte. Disc 2, Side A

Disc 2, Side A: The last rose of summer – and – Those evening bells / Moore, Gesprochen von W. J. Holloway, London, A 56032   Number: 001999 hu,  [...]

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Doegens Auswahl englischer Gedichte. Disc 1, Side B

Disc 1, Side B: To night / Shelley, Gesprochen von W. J. Holloway, London, A 56031   Number: 001999 hu, 002037 hu  [...]

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Doegens Auswahl englischer Gedichte. Disc 1, Side A

Disc 1, Side A: Adieu! Adieu! My native shore / Byron, Gesprochen von W. J. Holloway, Lyceum Theatre, London, A 56037 Number: 001999 hu, 002037 hu  [...]

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Doegens Auswahl englischer Gedichte. 2 Discs

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Wilhelm Albert Doegen

Wilhelm Doegen was born in Berlin. He studied economics, law, history, languages, and phonetics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (today Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and in Oxford with  [...]

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Doegen collection at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

The Doegen collection at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in Berlin comprises manuscripts, photographs, handwritten notes, brochures, and official documents from the estate of,  [...]

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Die systematische Ausbildung des musikalischen Gehörs

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Die Loango-Expedition ausgesandt von der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Aequatorial-Africas

Pechüel-Loesche’s printed account of Kautschukmelodie and the music of the Bafióti/Bavili.  [...]

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Die Lautabteilung

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Die Akustik

Die Akustik was written by Ernst Chladni in 1801, and is the first comprehensive work on acoustics to appear in German. The first part dealt with  [...]

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Dictaphone dictation machine

The Dictaphone dictation machine is a recording device that resembles the Edison phonograph in its use of wax cylinders as the recording medium. It differs from  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/46 – “An das deutsche Volk”

Speech: 10.01.1918 Recording: 09.01.1920 The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature Aut 1, in folder 47). The transcription of the speech  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/28 – “3 Probeaufnahmen vor dem Schloß Bellevue”

Speech: 10.01.1918 Recording: 09.01.1920 The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature Aut 37). — Further recordings are available through the collection of  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/18 – “Gebetsruf der Muhammediner”

Record accompanying “Jahrbuch des Lautwesens 1931”, see p. 9. — Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.    [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/13 – With Camera and Record, Disc 9,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/13 – With Camera and Record, Disc 9,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/12 – With Camera and Record, Disc 4,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/12 – With Camera and Record, Disc 4,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/11 – With Camera and Record, Disc 10,  [...]

Speech: 23.06.1919 Recording: 28.02.1928 The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature LA 1028). — Further recordings are available through the collection of  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/11 – With Camera and Record, Disc 10,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/10 – With Camera and Record, Disc 6,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 98/10 – With Camera and Record, Disc 6,  [...]

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 90/478 – “Rede in der Nationalversammlung”

Speech: 13.03.1919 Recording: 12.05.1920 The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature Aut 40). — Further recordings are available through the collection of  [...]

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DHM Recording T 90/475.1 – “Ausrufung der Republik”

Speech: 10.01.1918 Recording: 09.01.1920 The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature Aut 37). — Further recordings are available through the collection of  [...]

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DHM Recording T 90/423 – “Aufruf an das Deutsche Volk”

Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum.  [...]

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DHM Recording T 90/412 – “Unterzeichnung des Friedensvertrages von Versailles”

Speech: 23.06.1919 Recording: 28.02.1928 The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature LA 1028). — Further recordings are available through the collection of  [...]

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DHM Recording T 90/401 – “Das neue Berlin”

The personal information form belonging to this recording can be found at the Lautarchiv (Signature LA 701). — Further recordings are available through the collection of the Deutsches  [...]

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Der sprechende Flammenbogen und die Telephonie ohne Draht vermittelst Lichtstrahlen

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Der sprechende elektrische Flammenbogen und die Versuche, denselben praktisch zu verwerten

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Der physikalische und musikalische Tonmesser

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Der elektrische Lichtbogen

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Denkschrift über die Errichtung eines „Deutschen Lautamtes“ in Berlin

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Demonstrations of the „Tonlagenwandler“ – Side B

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Demonstrations of the „Tonlagenwandler“ – Side A

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Demonstrationen zur Lehre von den klanglichen Konstanten in Rede und Musik

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Demonstration of “chipmunk speech” by Variable Speech Control (VSC)

Demonstration of “chipmunk speech” by Variable Speech Control (VSC), c. 1975. VSC was one of several companies to market a tape playback device with time compression  [...]

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Das tönende Buch der Stadt Leipzig – Schellackplatte 2, Seite B

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Das tönende Buch der Stadt Leipzig – Schellackplatte 2, Seite A

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Das tönende Buch der Stadt Leipzig – Schellackplatte 1, Seite B

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Das tönende Buch der Stadt Leipzig – Schellackplatte 1, Seite A

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Das psychologische Institut

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Das Berliner Phonogrammarchiv

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein

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Copicat tape echo

The Watkins Electric Music (WEM) Copicat tape echo creates audible repetitions of sounds by using an endless tape loop. As an electronic effect for rock musicians,  [...]

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Choral recording in the courtyard

Choral recording in the courtyard

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Certificate of the registration of a trademark for the „Doegen-Lauthalter“

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Catalogue des appareils d’acoustique construits par Rudolph Koenig

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Cassette eraser

A device used to quickly and efficiently delete any signals stored on a compact cassette, including sound and sonically encoded computer-readable information. Its working principle is  [...]

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Carlos Palombini: Der Essay über Radio und Kino: Ästhetik und Technik  [...]

Cover by: Pierre Schaeffer, Essay über Radio und Kino: Ästhetik und Technik der Staffelkünste [1941-42], edited by Sophie Brunet and Carlos Palombini , Paris, Allia, 2010. Cover by:  [...]

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Carl Stumpf Research on Tone Psychology

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, psychologist Carl Stumpf and his colleagues at the Institute of Psychology in Berlin made the phonograph into a research  [...]

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Carl Stumpf [Vowel Experiments 4]

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Canary and Thrush Duet (45058-B)

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Brüel & Kjær 2304 level recorder

These pictures show the measuring device Type 2304 produced by the Danish company Brüel & Kjær. Level recorders like this one made it possible to create  [...]

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Brochure: Announcing the Varispeech Machine

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Brevet d’Invention (1857)/ Certificat d’Addition (1859)

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Bird Songs of Southeastern Minnesota

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Beschreibung eines Stosstöneapparates für Vorlesungsversuche

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Beschreibung einer Lochsirene für die gleichzeitige Erregung mehrerer Töne

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Bericht von Geheimrat Stumpf an die Preußische Phonographische Kommission, Part 2

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Bericht von Geheimrat Stumpf an die Preußische Phonographische Kommission, Part 1

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Bericht über mein Wirken und Schaffen in der Preussischen Phonographischen Kommission

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Beobachtungen über einige Bedingungen der Entstehung von Tönen

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Bell Telephone News, Vol. 9

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Bell Telephone News, Vol. 1

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Beitrag zur Übertragung oder Aufzeichnung eines breiten Nachrichtenbandes

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Auswahl französischer Poesie und Prosa

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Auswahl englischer Prosa und Poesie

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Auditec Spondees List Sample (Child Version)

The sample of the recording has kindly been provided by Auditec™. For more information see https://auditec.com/2015/08/04/spondees-child-spondees/. Picture: Ira Hirsh, The Measurement of Hearing (New York: McGraw Hill, 1952), Appendix B.  [...]

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Auditec Spondees List Sample (Adult Version)

The sample has been provided by Auditec™. For more versions of spondees see https://auditec.com/2015/09/30/spondees/. Picture: Ira Hirsh, The Measurement of Hearing (New York: McGraw Hill, 1952), Appendix B.  [...]

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Auditec PAL Lists Sample

Sample provided by Auditec™. A full version of the recording can be downloaded here: https://auditec.com/2015/09/02/pal-lists/. “The PAL (acronym for Psycho-Acoustic Labratory) Lists 1-4 were recorded and spoken by  [...]

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Audio Preservationist Carl Haber, 2013 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

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Apparat zur Messung der Geschwindigkeit des Schalls

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Anton Springer and the Time and Pitch Regulator

Since the beginnings of mechanical sound recording, playback rate and pitch were linked: increase the speed from the speed at which the sound was recorded and  [...]

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Animal Language – recording two, African Record (Day) 9136-I and (Night)  [...]

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Animal Language – recording one, IA 9010-I and IB 9013-I

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Animal Language

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Allgemeine Theorie der Musik auf den Rhythmus der Klangwellenpulse gegründet

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Akustische Briefe für Musiker und Musikfreunde

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Affidavit concerning Wilhelm Doegen’s attitude towards Jews

Height x width: 29,7 x 21 cm Recorded by Leopold Ganz Certificated by Ernst Heinrich  [...]

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A Sound Foundation

The Dutch Society for Acoustics (Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap) received its current name in 1962, but was established as the Sound Foundation (Geluidstichting) in 1934. Right from  [...]

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A Salute to Ludwig Koch, Side 2

Additional Information: Printed by: Garrod & Lofthouse International Ltd. Compiled by: John Burton Narrator: Desmond Hawkins Producer: Denis Lewell Notes: A Sound Biography by Desmond Hawkins.   Picture: Discogs  [...]

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A Salute to Ludwig Koch, Side 1

Additional Information: Printed by: Garrod & Lofthouse International Ltd. Compiled by: John Burton Narrator: Desmond Hawkins Producer: Denis Lewell Notes: A Sound Biography by Desmond Hawkins.   Picture: Discogs  [...]

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A recording of Wilhelm Doegen is transferred to the oscillograph

Height x width: 23 x 17,7 cm (Photo) Caption: „Wilh Doegen’s Versuche; Die von Deogen auf das Mikrophon gesprochenen Laute werden sofort sichtbar registriert mit Hilfe des Oszillographen auf  [...]

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A plea for phonotypy and phonography

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A method for the intensive study of birdsong

By photographing bird sound on motion picture film it is possible to bring bird song into the laboratory and study it intensively under the microscope. In sound  [...]

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8-track tape

The 8-track tape cartridge consists of a case holding a spool of magnetic tape. As a medium for the reproduction of sound, it was popular in  [...]

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35 mm 4-track tape

These pictures show an audio tape modeled on the technology traditionally employed in film. As in professional 35 mm wide film, the tape is perforated on  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Twelve discs

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 9, Side B

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Lamento d’Arianna (Klage der Ariadne) aus der Oper “Arianna” (1608) Maria Peschken (Alt) Prof. Dr. Sachs (Cembalo), Paul Hermann (Violincello)  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 9, Side A

Italienische Musik im Frühbarock Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612): Benedixisti (siebenstimmig) Die Kantorei der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, Berlin Leitung: Pius Kalt  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 8, Side B

Deutsche Tänze um 1600 a) Melchior Franck (1573-1639): Pavane b) Valentin Hausmann (1603): Tanz Münchener Violenquintett (Härtl, Huber, Stuhlfauth, List, Schmid)  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 8, Side A

Klaviermusik um 1600 William Byrd (1543-1623): Sellinger’s round Prof. Erwin Bodky (Cembalo) [Das Cembalo von Andreas Ruckers, Antwerpen 1618 aus der Instrumentensammlung der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin]  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 7, Side B

Das Madrigal Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612): Mein Lieb’ will mit mir kriegen Der Thiel’sche Madrigalchor Leitung: Prof. Dr. Carl Thiel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 7, Side A

Das Madrigal Gesualdo, Fürst von Venosa (um 1560-1614): Resta di darmi noia Der Thiel’sche Madrigalchor Leitung: Prof. Dr. Carl Thiel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 6, Side B

Die Höhepunkte der kirchlichen Polyphonie im 16. Jahrhundert Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594): Miserere aus den Bußpsalmen Staats- und Domchor, Berlin Leitung: Prof. Hugo Rüdel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 6, Side A

Die Höhepunkte der kirchlichen Polyphonie im 16. Jahrhundert Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594): Sanctus aus der “Missa Papae Marcelli” Staats- und Domchor, Berlin Leitung: Prof. Hugo Rüdel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 5, Side B

Deutsche Chöre des 16. Jahrhunderts Arnoldus de Bruck (1544): Aus tiefer Not (vierstimmig) Die Kantorei der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, Berlin Leitung: Pius Kalt  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 5, Side A

Deutsche Chöre des 16. Jahrhunderts Heinrich Finck (um 1500): Christ ist erstanden (fünfstimmig) Die Kantorei der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, Berlin Leitung: Pius Kalt  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 4, Side B

Die frühen Niederländer Josquin des Prés (um 1500): Et incarnatus est (vierstimmig) Die Kantorei der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, Berlin Leitung: Pius Kalt  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 4, Side A

Die frühen Niederländer Guillaume Dufay (um 1450): Gloria ad modum tubae (zweistimmig, Knabenchor und zwei Trompeten) Die Kantorei der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik, Berlin Leitung: Pius Kalt  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 3, Side B

Der Minnesang a) Walter von der Vogelweide: Palästinalied b) Rügelied gegen Rudolf von Habsburg c) Minnelied von Fürst Wizlaw von Rügen Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Moser  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 3, Side A

Troubadours a) Kalenda maya (Raimbaut de Vaqueiras) b) Pois preyatz me, senhor (Bernart von Ventadorn, um 1150) c) dasselbe in mittelhochdeutscher Nachdichtung von Graf Friedrich von Husen (gestorben vor  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 2, Side B

Frühe Mehrstimmigkeit Wallfahrtsgesang “Congaudeant Catholici” (Santiago de Compostela, 12. Jahrhundert) Gregorianische Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik zu Berlin Leitung: Prof. Dr. H. Halbig  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 2, Side A

Der Gregorianische Gesang Gradualresponsorium “Misit Dominus verbum suum” aus der Messe des 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanie Gregorianische Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Staatlichen Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik zu Berlin Leitung: Prof.  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 12, Side B

Empfindsamkeit Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande und Gavotte aus der 5. französischen Suite Prof. Erwin Bodky (Klavichordsolo) [Das zeitgenössische Klavichord aus der Instrumentensammlung der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin]  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 12, Side A

Rokoko Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764): La Poule Prof. Erwin Bodky (Cembalo) [gespielt auf dem Steingräber-Cembalo zu Berlin]  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 11, Side B

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Kammertrio Nr. 3 Es-Dur (1. Satz) für Oboe, Violine, Cembalo und Violoncello Georg Blumensaat, Martha Geismar, Prof. Erwin Bodky, Paul Hermann [Das Bach-Cembalo der Instrumentensammlung  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 11, Side A

Johann Sebastian Bach: 1. Satz aus der 2. Sonate für Violine und Cembalo Martha Geismar (Violine), Prof. Erwin Bodky (Cembalo) [Das Cembalo von Andreas Ruckers, Antwerpen 1618 aus  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 10, Side B

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Fuge aus der Motette “Der Geist hilft unserer Schwachheit auf” Staats- und Domchor, Berlin Leitung: Prof. Hugo Rüdel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 10, Side A

Die deutsche Motette Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): Psalm 111 aus der deutschen Messe Staats- und Domchor, Berlin Leitung: Prof. Hugo Rüdel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 1, Side B

Synagogale Musik a) Kaddish am Osterfest b) Aboda am Versöhnungstag c) Vorlesung aus dem Buch Esther Kantor B. Fränkel  [...]

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2000 Jahre Musik auf der Schallplatte. Disc 1, Side A

Griechische Musik a) Skolion des Seikilos b) Sonnenhymnus des Mesomedes (mit Chor) Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Moser  [...]

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“Home Notes” Vol. 1

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“Getting Through“ Album by the Zenith Radio Corporation

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