Sound and Science

Appunn’s “tenor” tonometer

(The following description is from a “Description of Appunn’s Tonnemeters,” by Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S., &c.; MS in the Western Galleries of the South Kensington Museum,  [...]

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Tone-Limit Apparatus

Tone-limit apparatus, for high notes of high pitch. Made by G. Appunn & Sons.   This apparatus was designed for determining the highest vibration-frequency which is recognized by the ear as  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_24576_vps_1876-469

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Harvard Sentences list no. 24

For more information about the Harvard Sentences see https://soundandscience.de/node/2242.  [...]

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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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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 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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“Getting Through“ Album by the Zenith Radio Corporation

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 7, Side B

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 4, Side A

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 6, Side B

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 3, Side A

The full album can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s. Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 1, Side A

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 8, Side B

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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Allgemeine Theorie der Musik auf den Rhythmus der Klangwellenpulse gegründet

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Ueber Combinationstöne

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Über die Grenzen der Tonwahrnehmung

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Vergleichende Gehörprüfungen an 100 Individuen mittelst Stimmgabeln, Uhr und Flüstersprache

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 5, Side B

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 2, Side A

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Cagniard de la Tour- type Siren

Description This type of siren was invented by Charles Cagniard, originally developed to measure the number of vibrations of a body in a given time. Cagniard’s siren  [...]

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Sonometer

Description The Sonometer is a musical and scientific instrument with ancient roots, commonly employed in demonstrations of acoustics to show the effect of length, tension, diameter, and  [...]

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Tonometrische Untersuchungen an einem deutschen Volkslied

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Über Klänge mit ungleichförmigen Wellen

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Catalogue des appareils d’acoustique construits par Rudolph Koenig

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Über die Beobachtung der Luftschwingungen in Orgelpfeifen

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Internationales Zentralblatt für experimentelle Phonetik VOX, Vol. 32

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Max Kohl

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Metronome

The authoritative musicological encyclopedia Grove Music Online defines the metronome as an “apparatus for establishing musical tempo” and “the clockwork-driven double-pendulum device perhaps invented about 1812 by Diederich  [...]

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NAG ICA (International Commission for Acoustics)

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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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Random Noise Generator Type 1390-B

This picture shows the Random Noise Generator Type 1390-B produced by the General Radio Company in West Concord, MA. A random noise generator is a device  [...]

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Schriften über musikalische und physikalische Tonmessung und Orgelstimmung und deren Anwendung  [...]

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Ueber mathematische Stimmung, Temperaturen und Orgelstimmung nach Vibrations-Differenzen oder Stößen

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Der physikalische und musikalische Tonmesser

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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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Set of 8 Large Demonstration Tuning Forks

This specific array of precision tuning forks are highly-specialized experimental forks that relate directly to Koenig’s long-standing disagreement with Helmholtz on the nature of combination tones.  [...]

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Brief [Letter] Dr. J. de Boer aan Prof. Dr. A.D. Fokker  [...]

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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Results Paul E. Sabine, Riverbank Laboratories, Geneva, III, 15.07.1927

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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Anti Lawaai Actie 3 [Noise Abatement Campaign 3]

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Max Osswald Photographs

Gathered by historian of architecture Sabine von Fischer, this set consists of sound photographs taken by Franz Max Osswald, the founder of the first laboratory for the  [...]

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Photographic study of sound propagation within convex and concave

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Contact sheet of photographic sound studies

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Image archive / foto: Osswald, Franz Max / Ans_10391-011  [...]

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Photographic study of sound propagation in a cupola space

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Photographic study of sound propagation for an auditorium of variable size  [...]

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Acoustics laboratory, E.T.H. Zürich: Oscillation chart of the adjacent reverberation room

ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Image archive, Inventory-number: Ans_10391-100  [...]

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Acoustics laboratory, E.T.H. Zürich

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Photographic study of sound propagation in Semper’s Stadthaus Winterthur auditorium

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Photographic study of sound propagation for rooms with wood coffering

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Photographic study of sound propagation for an elliptic space with coffering  [...]

Inventory number: Ans_10391-066

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Photographic study of sound propagation with explanatory line drawings

Inventory number: Ans_10391-050

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Photographic study of sound propagation in the Ear of Dionysius

Inventory number: Ans_10391-091

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Demonstration of a disk siren

This video demonstrates the principle of a disk siren. The device consists of a rotating machine accompanied by a series of cardboard perforated discs and bearing indications  [...]

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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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Manometric capsule, resonance, Koenig sound analyzer

This video demonstrates the principle of the manometric capsule and the Koenig analyzer, which can be used to study sound. The capsule is made of two small  [...]

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Appunn’s “tenor” tonometer recordings

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 12, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_7680_vps_1876-469

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_ 4096_vps_1876-469

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2304_vps_1876-469

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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Tone-Limit Apparatus

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Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on July 17, 2013, by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of  [...]

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