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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | L5310 |
| Name: | Leipp, Emile |
| Dates: | d. 1985/6 |
| See also: | G8825 - GAM; C3480 - Castellengo, Michele; M7193 - Moles, Abraham A; S2650 - Savart. |
| General Information: |
| A skilled violin maker and teacher of music whose interests in applying scientific research to the violin |
| led to his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in 1960, "Les Parametres sensible des instruments de musique a |
| cordes frotte". For many years he was Directeur de Laboratoire d'Acoustique, Universite de Paris VI, |
| Institut de Mechanique, Theorique et Appliquee. He organized the "Groupe d'Acoustique Musicale" |
| (GAM) which met regularly for some years and published bulletins on the problems of musical acoustics. |
| Many of the GAM bulletins are in the CAS file. A selected list of Leipp's papers is in Benchmark Vol. 5 |
| along with his paper, written jointly with Abraham Moles "l'Employ du sosograph dans le determination |
| de la qualite des instruments a cordes". Leipp made various studies ranging from the physical |
| measurements of strings to attempts to correlate the value of a violin and its physical parameters. His |
| book "Le Violin, historique esthetique, facture et acoustique" Herman & Cie, Paris 1965 (English |
| translation, University of Toronto Press, 1969), was widely accepted. Leipp had two original Savart |
| trapezoidal violins in his laboratory and had studied them extensively. The original evaluation that they |
| had very good tone was certainly not based on modern standards for violin quality. See "The Violon de |
| Savart" par E. Leipp, Musique et Radio, Paris 1959. |
| File Contents: |
| L5310 | -- | 101 |
| Technical papers and booklets (20 from 1952-1978); translation by H. Burritt Miller of one paper; |
| comments on some papers by J.C. Schelleng. See GAM G8825 for other technical papers. |
| Key Words: | Musical acoustics | clarinette | violin |
| L5310 | -- | 102 |
| Correspondence: (1960-1986) to & from Leipp from FAS, REF, CMH. |
| Key Words: |
| L5310 | -- | 103 |
| Biographical material; book flyer, publication list [874 KB, PDF]; technical papers (3) including an English translation. |
| Key Words: | Sonograph | string excitation | string vibration |