stopped organ pipe, UT3
Date: circa 1890
Inventory Number: WJ0021
Classification: Organ Pipe
Subject:
Maker: Rudolph Koenig (1832 - 1901)
User: Hugo Münsterberg (1863 - 1916)
User: Harvard Psychological Laboratory (founded 1891)
User: Department of Psychology, Harvard University (founded 1934)
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Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
36 x 6.5 x 6 cm (14 3/16 x 2 9/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Bibliography:
Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound: Instruments, Theories, and the Debate over Combination Tones
Catalogue des appareils d'acoustique construits par Rudolph Koenig
Description:
This rectangular pipe of average length has its bottom lip secured by three flat-head screws. At the top, a small square removable stopper. Without it, the frequency produced is approximately double. A soft felt-like material around the edge of the stopper ensures a tight fit. Stopped, this organ pipe produces the pitch UT3. The whole set of eight pipes spans the range of an octave, from UT3 to UT4.
In Collection(s)
Signedon pipe: RUDOLPH KOENIG / À PARIS
Inscribednear pipe mouth: UT3
FunctionSuch a set of organ pipes was used in psychological experiments to study hearing sensations.
Historical AttributesThis instrument is found in Hugo Münsterberg's 1893 Psychological Laboratory of Harvard University document. It is thus listed: "54. Eight stopped pipes, giving the scale from Ut3 to Ut4. By Koenig, Paris. $12."
See online reproduction here.
See online reproduction here.
Primary SourcesRudolph Koenig, Catalogue des appareils d'acoustique construits par Rudolph Koenig (Paris, 1889), 47, no. 114.
Hugo Münsterberg's 1893 inventory of Harvard's Psychological Laboratory apparatus is located in Harvard University Archives HUF 715.93.72.
Hugo Münsterberg's 1893 inventory of Harvard's Psychological Laboratory apparatus is located in Harvard University Archives HUF 715.93.72.