Sound and Science

De la nature des phénomènes auditifs: refutation de la théorie d’Helmholtz

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Upon the production of sound by radiant energy

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

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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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Letter from von Hornbostel to Schünemann

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

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Ueber Combinationstöne

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Ueber die Definition des Tones

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Beobachtungen über einige Bedingungen der Entstehung von Tönen

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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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Cherry Bowl Resonance

Description This is a variation of Savart’s  resonance bell where the bell is sounded and the resonator is moved back and forth to resonate with specific frequencies.  [...]

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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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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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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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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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Le Istitutioni harmoniche

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

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Akustische Briefe für Musiker und Musikfreunde

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Dr. Wallis’s letter to the publisher, concerning a new musical discovery;  [...]

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Jonathan Sterne, The Software Passes the Test When the User Fails  [...]

Field recordings: – Stanford Memorial Church (2011, demonstration of the church’s acoustic responses to different noise bursts by audio engineer Jonathan Abel; Center for Computer Research in Music  [...]

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Koenig Sound Analyser

Koenig’s flame analyzer was, next to the Koenig sound synthesizer, one of the clearest expressions of Hermann von Helmholtz’s theory that complex sounds were made up  [...]

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

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Questions harmoniques

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Traité de l’harmonie universelle, Vol. 2

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Quelques expériences d’acoustique

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Über den Zusammenklang zweier Töne

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Organisation der Lautabteilung an der Preussischen Staatsbibliothek Berlin

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Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges

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Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni

Chladni was a physicist whose work focused on experimental acoustics. He invented the “Chladni figure” and various instruments. Until his death, he continued to travel and  [...]

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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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The alphabet of nature

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NAG ICA (International Commission for Acoustics)

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Ziele und Wege der Schallanalyse. Zwei Vorträge

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Rhythmisch-melodische Studien. Vorträge und Aufsätze

Content / Inhalt 1. Zu Wernhers Marienliedern(1893). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  [...]

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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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Helmholtz’s double siren

In 1862, the German scientist Herman Helmholtz invented another important acoustic instrument, the double siren. The new instrument combined two Dove Sirens, which were positioned to  [...]

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Der physikalische und musikalische Tonmesser

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Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen, 1st ed.

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

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Koenig Analyser

Description: 14 universal resonators supported by a cast iron frame. The resonators can be adjusted by sliding them outward, range from UT2 (base C) to UT5 and  [...]

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Stumpf Papers: [Carl Stumpf], [Envelope] 4. Tafeln des Interferenz-Aufbau’s f. gesungene  [...]

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

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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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List of Doegen’s publications and achievements

Height x width: 29,7 x 20,8 cm  [...]

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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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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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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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Tonsystem und Musik der Siamesen

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Franz Max Osswald

Franz Max Osswald, born in Winterthur, graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1905 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (E.T.H.). In 1924, he installed a  [...]

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

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Die Sprachlaute

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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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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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Rudolph Koenig

Karl Rudolph Koenig (also known as Rudolf Koenig or König) studied at the University of Königsberg. In about 1852, he moved to Paris and joined the  [...]

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Medizinisch-pädagogische Monatsschrift für die gesammte Sprachheilkunde, Vol. 4

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Medizinisch-pädagogische Monatsschrift für die gesammte Sprachheilkunde, Vol. 3

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Medizinisch-pädagogische Monatsschrift für die gesammte Sprachheilkunde, Vol. 2

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Medizinisch-pädagogische Monatsschrift für die gesammte Sprachheilkunde, Vol. 1

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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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