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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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Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2730,66_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_1_8192_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_9216_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_10240_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_10922,66_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_12288_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_15360_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_16384_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_18432_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_20480_vps_1867-469
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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_21845,33_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 [...]
audio
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 [...]
audio
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 [...]
audio
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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Über die Grenzen der Tonwahrnehmung
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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik
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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik
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Neue Beiträge zu einer Lehre von den Tonvorstellungen
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Experimentelle und erkenntnistheoretische Musikerziehung
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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein
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On the musical scales of various nations
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On the sensitiveness of the ear to pitch and change of [...]
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Experimentelle Überprüfung der Rutz-Sieversschen Typenlehre
Schulte, Hans: “Experimentelle Überprüfung der Rutz-Sieversschen Typenlehre an der Universität Bonn”, in: Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie, vol. 70 issue 1-2, section 119-208, 1929. [...]
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Demonstrationen zur Lehre von den klanglichen Konstanten in Rede und Musik
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Lissajous’s figures, Wheatstone apparatus for compounding two orthogonal oscillations
This video demonstrates the principle of Chladni figures and vibrating plates. Brass plates of different shapes are fixed centrally at the top of wooden columns. Sand is [...]
video
Sounds, vibrations, and Marloye’s harp
This video demonstrates the principle of a Marloye’s harp. The masses of four pendulums are backed to the inside of a glass vessel. When an arch rubs [...]
video
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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_6826,66_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_6144_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_5461,33_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_5120_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_ 4608_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 [...]
audio
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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_3840_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_3418,33_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_3072_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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2560_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 [...]
audio
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 [...]
audio
Tone-Limit-Apparatus_1_2048_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 [...]
audio
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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