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Carl Stumpf: Phonographic recordings of vowels
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Carl Stumpf: Phonographic recordings of vowels
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This page is headed “Program with von Hornbostel and Wertheimer” and dated May 4/5, 1916. It lists pitches and instruments:
Bottle
Forks (first forks mounted on wood, then unmounted forks)
Reed pipe (travel tonometer)
Hornbostel then sings the vowels A, E, I, O, U, Ä, Ö, Ü first at c, then at c1
and speaks two words: Uhu (owl) and Kuckuck (cuckoo).
Available at: http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/library/data/lit38891/index_html?pn=2
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