Signedstamped: RUDOLPH KOENIG / A PARIS
Inscribedstamped: LA 2
FunctionProduces musical tones that can be used for psychological experiments on the sensation of hearing.
If one removes the slider on top, the pipe produces tones one octave higher (half the original wavelength).
Historical AttributesThis instrument is found in Hugo Münsterberg's 1893 Psychological Laboratory of Harvard University document. It is thus listed: "53. Nine open wooden pipes, from Ut2 to Ut3, to be used with the organ-bellows. The Ut2 duplicated. By Koenig, Paris. $30."
See online reproduction here.
Primary SourcesRudolph Koenig, Catalogue des appareils d'acoustique construits par Rudolph Koenig (Paris, 1889), 46, No. 112.
Hugo Münsterberg's 1893 inventory of Harvard's Psychological Laboratory apparatus is located in Harvard University Archives HUF 715.93.72.
ProvenanceFrom the Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
Related WorksDavid Pantalony, "Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound: Instruments, Theories, and the Debate over Combination Tones," Annals of Science 62 (2005): 57-82.