Signedon pipe: RUDOLPH KOENIG / À PARIS
Inscribednear pipe mouth: MI3
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.
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.
Related WorksDavid Pantalony, "Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound: Instruments, Theories, and the Debate over Combination Tones," Annals of Science 62 (2005): 57-82.