Sound and Science

Opelt’s Siren Disk

Description The earliest siren is attributed to Charles Cagniard de la Tour in 1819 (See the entry for Cagniard de la Tour Siren) Polyphonic sirens, with concentric  [...]

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Casavant organ demonstrator

Description This is a demonstration pipe organ made by a well-known Quebec company, Casavant Frères. It was most likely obtained by the Physics department around 1925, when  [...]

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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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On the sensitiveness of the ear to pitch and change of  [...]

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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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Johann Friedrich Kaufmann

Inventor of the trumpet automaton, several musical automata, and the harmonichord. Clockmaker, instrument maker and musician in Dresden. Founder of the cabinet of acoustics in Dresden.  [...]

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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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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 1187

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Personal information form for Lautarchiv Recording LA 1186

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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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Double Siren

The double siren was one of Koenig’s more popular instruments. It consisted of two “polyphonic” or “multivoiced” sirens with more than one series of holes, and  [...]

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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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Vibrations of plates, Chladni’s figures

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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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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Doegens Auswahl englischer Gedichte. 2 Discs

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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Tone-Limit Apparatus

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