Key Board for a Helmholtz Clang Synthesizer
name: label: used at
content: Cornell University
label: maker
content: Koenig, Rudolph
notes: label: Description
content: Herman Von Helmholtz designed an instrument--known variously as the Clang-Tint Synthesizer, or the Vocabulary Apparatus--to compound timbres of various harmonics. In this example, ten tuning forks attached to resonators are mounted on a keyboard. The forks are sounded by an electromagnetic fork interrupter, while the keys control the opening and closing of the resonator covers. An inscription reads “Rudolf Koenig / A Paris.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, Des Appareils D’Acoustique (Paris, 1889), p. 25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cornell University Department of Psychology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.300427.099
label: catalog number
content: 300427.099
label: accession number
content: 300427
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Accessories, Sound Board, Set of
label: Object Name
content: Key Board
label: Object Name
content: key board
label: Other Terms
content: Accessories, Sound Board, Set of; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.8 cm x 85.4 cm x 98.2 cm; 6 1/4 in x 33 5/8 in x 38 11/16 in