Meinel, Hermann - Correspondence M5140-101
Abstract/Contents
- Description
- Correspondence involving Meinel, Verlag Hirzel, Verlag Springer, Backhaus, CMH, Dowden Hutchinson & Ross and (Frau) Elisabeth Meinel.
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material |
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| Date created | 1935 - 1978 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | reformatted digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | Meinel, Hermann, 1904-1977 |
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Bibliographic information
| Biographical note | One of the foremost acousticians in violin research who came from a family traditionally centered in music and musical instruments in Germany near Markneukirchen and Klingenthal. Early trained as a Master Violin Maker he soon recognized the narrow limits of constructing violins on an empirical basis and entered the University of Leipzig eventually obtaining his doctorate under H. Backhaus in Greifswald. Meinel's interests and abilities placed him in an excellent position to relate the fast expanding knowledge of acoustics of the early 1930s to the study of the violin. In 1934 his essay on violin acoustics won an award from the Prussian Academy of Sciences. His research and writings on the violin continued until his death in 1977. Several of Meinel's papers are reproduced in the Benchmark volumes 5 and 6, which indicate the scope of his work on stringed instruments. He emphasized the great importance of wood thickness compared with other factors in violin making with respect to modes of vibration, volume, and timbre of sounds produced. He studied the properties of outstanding violins, methods of evaluating tone quality and performance, the effects of varnish, arching of plates, and properties of the wood used, radiation patterns of violins, as well as the vibrational modes of the complete violin. His paper "Regarding the sound quality of violins and a scientific basis for violin construction" (in English) JASA 29(7) 817-822(1957) gives a good idea of the overall scope of his work. |
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| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
| Location | M1711 |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bh347jt9444 |
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