Das Pianoforte in seinen akustischen Anlagen von Siegfried Hansing, New York. Für Amerika im Selbstverlag des Verfassers.

HANSING, Siegfried.

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Breslau, C. Laffert, 1888. 8vo. (4),+ 181,+ (2) pp.+ portrait. Illustrated. A few pencil annotations and underlinings. Contemporary worn cloth spine with marbled boards, loose in spine First edition of Siegfried Hansing?s important acoustical study for the piano. An English translation ?The pianoforte and its acoustical properties? was published the same year. Siegfried Hansing (1842-1913) was born in Germany and educated as a cabinetmaker. He eventually worked for piano making companies in both Germany and the United States. Despite his lack of formal education in physics or math, he would become one of the best known researchers in the field of the acoustics of piano making. ?With his 1888 book Das Pianoforte in seinen akustischen Anlagen Hansing created one of the first comprehensive acoustical studies of the piano. The text was based on the common literature of acoustics and physics, combining the work of Hermann von Helmholtz and John Tyndall with his own research, observations, and experience. (Sonja Petersen, Craftsmen-Turned-Scientists? The Circulation of Explicit and Working Knowledge in Musical-Instrument Making, 1880?1960 in ?Osiris?, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2013, pp. 212-231.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Das Pianoforte in seinen akustischen Anlagen von Siegfried Hansing, New York. Für Amerika im Selbstverlag des Verfassers.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Hardcover / Hardback