Article ID: CBB000500117

Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound: Instruments, Theories, and the Debate over Combination Tones (2005)

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Rudolph Koenig's workshop was a busy meeting place for instruments, ideas, experiments, demonstrations, craft traditions, and business. Starting around 1860, it was also the place in Paris where people discovered the new science of sound emerging from the studies of Hermann von Helmholtz in Germany. Koenig built Helmholtz's ideas into apparatus, created new instruments, and spread them throughout the scientific and musical world. Through his own research, he also became Helmholtz's strongest critic. This paper looks at the activities of this unique space and, in particular, how it contributed to the protracted disputes over an elusive acoustical phenomenon called the combination tone.

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Authors & Contributors
Wilson, Preston S.
Pantalony, David Alexander
Dolder, Craig N.
Barbieri, Patrizio
Davies, James Q.
Lockhart, Ellen
Concepts
Acoustics
Physics
Music
Science and music
Musical instruments
Mathematics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Early modern
Places
Germany
United States
France
England
London (England)
Italy
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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