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[History of the tuning fork. I: Invention of the tuning fork, its course in ...  1997 Feb;76(2):116-22. [History of the tuning fork. I: Invention of the tuning fork, its course in music and natural sciences. ... THE INVENTION OF THE TUNING FORK: The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by John Shore, trumpeter and ... using plays on words involving the name Shore, and mixing up pitch-pipe and pitchfork.
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Tuning fork - Wikipedia  A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel). It resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it ... The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter and...
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Explore Whipple Collections - Historical notes: a brief chronicle of ...  Image 2 Jules Lissajous experimenting with tuning forks, late 19th century. ... The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by John Shore (d. 1752), the renowned musician, instrument maker and trumpeter to the English Royal Court and ... Before this innovation musicians requiring a standard musical pitch G had to rely on wooden...
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Free Flashcards about INVENTORS-J - StudyStack  IN 1711, TRUMPETER JOHN SHORE INVENTED THIS TWO-PRONGED PITCH SETTER, TUNING FORK. IN 1910 THIS SWISS COMPANY PRODUCED ITS...
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Tuning forks | World Public Library - eBooks | Read eBooks online  A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with ... It resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it ... The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter and Lutenist to the court. .... Electronic tuner  Pitch pipe  Weber test  Rinne test...
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Historical Information & Views | Johann Christoph Denner  Johann Christoph Denner (Nuremburg) and his son, Jacob are attributed to ... you do not get a C an octave higher, you sound a G, which is the interval of a twelfth. ... Eddie Daniels, Pete Fountain, Benny Goodman and Woody Herman are ... Johann Denner, invented an improved chalumeau with seven tone holes and two...
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Woodwind Central - Flute Info - Baroque-Music.com  Woodwind Central - A website for woodwind enthusiasts. ... during medieval times, but in the baroque period flute or flauto specifically meant the end-blown recorder. ... Forerunner of the flute, but end-blown through a whistle-mouthpiece.
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Pascal's calculator - Wikipedia  Pascal's calculator is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in the early 17th ... Gottfried Leibniz invented his Leibniz wheels after 1671 after trying to add an .... He first tried to build a machine that could multiply automatically while sitting .... The only two differences between an addition and a subtraction are the...
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Cheraw South Carolina is Dizzy with Jazz Music  Jazz king John Birks Dizzy Gillespie was born in Cheraw in 1917. Dizzy was a founder of modern jazz, an innovative trumpeter known for his bent horn, ... The Dizzy Gillespie Home Site Park also celebrates Cheraw's most famous son.
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Louis Spohr - Wikipedia  Louis Spohr (5 April 1784  22 October 1859), born Ludwig Spohr, was a German composer, ... Spohr was the inventor of both the violin chinrest and the orchestral ... C minor for violin and harp for her), touring in Italy (18161817), England (1820) and ... Furthermore the same institution holds a complete set of copied parts.
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Dizzy Gillespie - Wikipedia  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and .... In 1943 I heard the great Earl Hines band which had Bird in it and all those other great musicians. ... Bebop was known as the first modern jazz style. ..... Whatever the origins of Gillespie's upswept trumpet, by June 1954 he was...
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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia  A timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative ... In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by ... The octant was invented in 1730 by Thomas Godfrey, a glazier in ..... as to the 18th and 19th century North American sports of Old Cat and Town ball,...
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jeopardy/143_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Wrong: Value: $500. Number: 17. INVENTIONS | Among his many creations was an audiometer to detect vestigial hearing in the deaf | Alexander Graham Bell.
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the english slide trumpet - Historic Brass Society  principle of slides on trumpets goes back probably to the 15th century and the common ancestors of the ... English flat trumpet with their "sackbut" captions.4. Figure 1 d ... (c) From J. Rodler, The Origins and Development of the Tournament in.
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theta alpha chi SpeedMatch Review Game - Super Teacher Tools  Also called a helicon, this 3-valve tuba wraps around the player's body & has a flaring bell. In the '30s Laurens Hammond patented the 1st commercially...
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Gen. Chuck Yeager Describes How He Broke The Sound Barrier  6 days ago ... On October 14, 1947, a test pilot with the right stuff changed the future ... Yeager climbed into the Bell X-1 and became the first man to travel ... to a disagreement I'd had the previous evening with a horse. The horse won. I broke two ribs. ... speed of sound that morning without too much fanfarebroken ribs...
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A history of binaural recording | Society of Sound - Bowers & Wilkins  Aug 5, 2010 ... There's one very important difference between headphones and ... that's how binaural recordings have always been made. ... by inventor Clement Ader, who used pairs of microphones in front of the ... systems with each microphone feeding a separate AM transmitter, each tuned to different frequencies.
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The Soundry: Timeline - Vernon Public Schools Academic Webserver  At his Menlo Park laboratory, Thomas Edison invented the first machine that could ... This phonograph had the capability to both play and record. ... In the summer of 1888 Thomas Edison announced that he had perfected the phonograph. ... It used a wax cylinder like with the graphophone but now there was a shaft to hold...
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jeopardy/1002_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Comments: (Jimmy: Hi, I'm Jimmy of the Clue Crew. ... John Carr, a British man, developed this spin technique in the 19th century | putting english on the ball.
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theta alpha chi SpeedMatch Review Game - Super Teacher Tools  France's Unknown Soldier lies beneath this Champs-Elysees landmark. In 1709 inventor B. Cristofori gave this instrument a name meaning "harpsichord with...
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THE METRONOME - Facebook  Beethoven stated this latter idea clearly when he chose a speed for So oder so, ... the idea from Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel (1777-1826), a German inventor who had ... laws of physics that govern their regular motions could apply to music as well. .... Still, at the first attempts to use the metronome to keep a steady beat, the new...