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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | S2650 |
| Name: | Savart, Felix |
| Dates: | 1791-1841 |
| See also: | F6120 - Fletcher, D A; C7450 - Condax, Louis. |
| General Information: |
| A pioneer acoustician and expert experimentalist who started on a medical career, but when patients |
| were slow in coming he turned to experiments with the violin and began to devote himself to the study of |
| acoustics and explored a wide range of subjects from the acoustics of air, the human voice, bird songs, |
| vibrating solids and the sounds in flowing liquids. This latter is particularly interesting to cardio-vascular |
| researchers today, so much so that V.A. McKusick and H.K. Wiskind wrote a monograph on Savart's |
| life and work with extensive references to his many publications (see copy in file). Savart's pioneering |
| research on the acoustics of the violin is basic to much of the work being done today, such as the |
| Chladni pattern method of tuning violin plates, vibrations of the air in he violin, and of the bowed string. |
| Much of this was also described in his MEMOIRE of 1819 as well as in his lectures reproduced in the |
| periodical l'INSTITUT. The CAS obtained copies of these in French which were translated by Donald |
| A. Fletcher, (see file), portions of which are in Benchmark Vols. 5 and 6. |
| File Contents: |
| S2650 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence (11): (1960-1967) between CMH and librarians and others about Savart; between |
| Margery Quigley and CMH. |
| Key Words: |
| S2650 | -- | 102 |
| Miscellaneous (5): Fletcher release for translations; Biographical information (2); microfilms of the |
| Savart 1819 memoire and the Ernst Freidrich Florens Chladni 1809 treatise (French translation). |
| Key Words: | Chladni patterns |
| S2650 | -- | 103 |
| Technical (7): The 1819 memoire; the 1840 L'Institut articles on the acoustics of musical instruments; |
| Annales de Chemie et de Physique; D.A. Fletcher translations of portions of all; P. Davidson |
| translation of portion of L'Institute; the McKusick/Wiskund article on Savart. CMH comments on |
| Fletcher translations & content. See Tech Summary. |
| Key Words: | Sound quality | cardiovascular sound | Chladni patterns | plate vibrations |