Differential Sonometer
date: label: date made
content: 1865-1880
name: label: Maker
content: Rudolph Koenig
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 8-string example came from the Smithsonian Institution Instrument Room, and was undoubtedly made by Rudolph Koenig in Paris. Koenig termed it a great sonometer according to M. Barbereau. Mathurin August Balthazar Barbereau (1799-1879) was a French musician.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rudolph Koenig, <i>Catalogue des Appareils d’Acoustique</i> (Paris, 1865), p. 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
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314589
label: accession number
content: 205890
label: catalog number
content: 314589
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sonometer, Barberau
label: Object Name
content: sonometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm x 133 cm x 57 cm; 9 1/16 in x 52 3/8 in x 22 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 51 in x 22 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 129.54 cm x 57.15 cm