Maker
Secretan |
Place Made
Paris ; France ; Europe ; Western Europe |
Date Made
Circa 1865 (1855-1871) |
Description
Technical description: Massive iron tuning fork with wooden base, with separate wooden resonator box open at one end tuned to same pitch; probably intended to be Diapason Normal (A₄ 435 Hz) and thus made after 1859. Can be sounded by bowing.
Inscribed on face of fork "SECRETAN / PARIS"; labelled on box "Secretan Opticien de S.M. l'Empereur, Paris".
Marc François Louis Secretan (1804 1867) was in partnership with Nicolas Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807 1873) until the latter retired in 1855; he was succeeded in 1867 by his son Auguste Secretan (1833 1874).
Usable pitch: measured frequency +/- 0.1 cents, 435.07 Hz; equivalent to A4 at A4 = 435.1 Hz.
Illustration references: Vol. 1 p.167. |
Notes
Raymond Parks, 07.10.95; Arnold Myers, 11.9.95. |
Measurements
length of fork 71; length of resonator box 187. |
Provenance
Probably to be identified with the `Tuning Fork on Resonance box' listed in inventory of the Music Class Room Museum circa 1930 (Cupboard D, item 19). |
Collection
MIMEd ; Reid Collection |
Accession Number
0477 |