Sound and Science

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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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_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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-5-Rhythm

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This album  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-6-Memory

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-4-Timbre

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-3-Time

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-2-Loudness

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-1-Pitch

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-6-Memory

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-5-Rhythm

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-4-Timbre

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-3-Time

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-2-Loudness

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-1-Pitch

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Records

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Über die Natur der Musik

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik

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Die systematische Ausbildung des musikalischen Gehörs

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Tuning Fork Set

Description This set of tuning forks located in the Physics Department of the University of Alberta. They are described in the university legers as “Beat Boxes.” The Parisian  [...]

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Jun Zhong (均钟)

Description In the 1970s, a peculiar five-stringed instrument was unearthed from the early Warring States period tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng in Suizhou, Hubei（湖北随州）. Evidence points  [...]

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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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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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Chain of pure major 3rds & Quarter-tone between D♯ and E♭

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein

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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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Johann Heinrich Scheibler

The silk manufacturer Johann Heinrich Scheibler invented a method to tune keyboards with unprecedented accuracy, applying principles that he had developed in his textile factory. His  [...]

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Battements et sons résulants de deux mouvements vibratoires produits simultanément dans  [...]

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Über Klänge mit ungleichförmigen Wellen

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On the simultaneous sounding of two notes

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Stimmgabel mit veränderlichem Tone

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Über den Zusammenklang zweier Töne

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

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Internationales Zentralblatt für experimentelle Phonetik VOX, Vol. 32

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Jules Antoine Lissajous

Jules Antoine Lissajous was a high-school teacher, then held prestigious administrative posts in the education system of various parts of France. He had trained in physics,  [...]

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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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Demonstrationen zur Lehre von den klanglichen Konstanten in Rede und Musik

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Tonometer

A tonometer consists of a series of steel cylinders that resonate at specific frequencies upon being struck with a metal hammer. They are used as standards  [...]

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

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Alexander John Ellis

Alexander John Ellis was born Alexander John Sharpe on June 14, 1814, in Hoxton, Middlesex, and died in London on October 28, 1890. He studied mathematics  [...]

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Zeitraffung und –dehnung bei der Tonbandwiedergabe

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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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Explanation of the electrical information storage – Side B

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Explanation of the electrical information storage – Side A

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Demonstrations of the „Tonlagenwandler“ – Side B

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Demonstrations of the „Tonlagenwandler“ – Side A

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

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

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Helmholtz Synthesizer

The sound synthesiser was Helmholtz’s clearest instrumental expression of his theory of timbre, or sound quality. Whereas his spherical resonators dissected compound sounds (vowels or musical  [...]

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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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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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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₇

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SI₆

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: 14

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: LA₆

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: 13

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₆

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: 11

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: FA₆

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: MI₆

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: RE₆

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₆

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₅

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 27.06.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₁ – LA₁: LA₁ 224  [...]

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Twelve tuning forks, with ivory hammer, made by Dr. R. Koenig

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₁ – LA₁: LA₁ 213,3  [...]

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₁ – LA₁: SOL₁

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₁ – LA₁: SOL₁ 2:3

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₁ – LA₁: LA₁ 3:5

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: MI₁ – FA₁: FA₁ 3:4

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: MI₁ – FA₁: FA₁ 5:7

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: MI₁ – FA₁: MI₁ 4:5

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: MI₁ – FA₁: MI₁ 5:6

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: RE₁ 5:6

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: RE₁ 6:7

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: RE₁ 7:8

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: UT₁ 8:9

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: UT₁ 9:10

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: UT₁ 15:16

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: UT₁ 24:25

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: UT₁ 80:81

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁ – RE₁: 1:1

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₁

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SI₁ – UT₂ 4:7

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: UT₂

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: MI₂

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Tuning fork by Dr. R. Koenig: SOL₂

Recorded at the Acoustics Collection Storage Room, Science Museum Blythe House, London W14, on 12.04.2013 by Dr. Aleksander Kolkowski (Research Associate, Royal College of Music, 2013  [...]

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Eight tuning forks made by Dr. Rudolph Koenig  [...]

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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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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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_ 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  [...]

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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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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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  [...]

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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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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  [...]

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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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