Sonometer
notes: label: Description
content: A sonometer demonstrates the relationship between the frequency of the sound produced by a plucked string, and the tension, length and mass per unit length of the string. This large and heavy two-string example came from the Smithsonian Institution Instrument Room, and was probably made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris. By terming it a Differential Sonometer of Marloye, Koenig indicated that it had been designed by that important French acoustic instrument maker.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), pp. 24-25.
label: Description
content: David Pantalony, <i>Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris</i> (2009).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314601
label: catalog number
content: 314601
label: accession number
content: 205890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sonometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/8 in x 70 in x 11 1/8 in; 38.4175 cm x 177.8 cm x 28.2575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 180 cm x 28.6 cm x 39 cm; 70 7/8 in x 11 1/4 in x 15 11/32 in