Henry Ward Poole

ingegnere statunitense

Henry Ward Poole (18251890) è stato un ingegnere statunitense. Esperto di statistica, educatore, ideatore di invenzioni musicali e strumenti (e noto per la tastiera Poole (Poole keyboard), inventore di sistemi di accordatura musicale, fratello del famoso bibliofilo William Frederick Poole e cugino del giornalista politico Fitch Poole.

Henry Ward Poole

Pubblicazioni modifica

On the true natural diatonic scale of music, and its adoption in the euharmonic organ, Worcester, 1848.

On Perfect Intonation and the Euharmonic Organ, New Englander and Yale review, maggio 1850.

Mappa topografica di Mine Hill e della ferrovia Schuylkill-Haven con rami secondari ed estensione ad Ashland, 1854.

On Perfect Harmony in Music, The Americal Journal of Science and Arts, luglio 1867, p. 1.

On the Musical Ratios, and our Pleasure in Harmonious Sounds, American Journal of Science, vol. xliv, n. 135, maggio 1868, p. 19.

Brevetti USA modifica

US 6,565 Alley & Poole. Organ action. 03.07.1849

US 73,753. H. W. Poole. Improved Enharmonic key-board for Organs, &c. 28.01.1868

Bibliografia modifica

  • Eliot, Samuel A., The Euharmonic Organ. The Living Age, Settembre 1850, pp. 473-479.
  • Quality of Musical Sounds, Scientific American, 8 luglio 1868, p. 25.
  • Bosanquet, R. H. M., On the Theory of the Division of the Octave, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 1874.
  • Lesley, J. P., Historical Sketch of Geological Explorations in Pennsylvania and Other States Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, Harrisburg, 1876.
  • Howe, Granville L. - W. S. B. Mathews, A Hundred Years of Music in America, W. B. Conkey, Chicago, 1889.
  • One of the Lost Geniuses: Contributors Club, The Atlantic Monthly, gennaio 1891, p. 136.
  • S. Huntington Hooker, Joseph Alley's Enharmonic Organ, Music, vol. 11, Music Magazine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1897.
  • Owen, B., An enharmonic harmonium by Joseph Alley, Reed Organ Society Journal, 1987, p. 23.
  • Stanton, William, Pennsylvania Geological Survey: 1836, American Scientific Exploration, 1803-1860, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1991.
  • Monzo, Joseph, On the Poole Keyboard, Sonic Arts Gallery, San Diego, 1999.
  • Joseph Alley - Organ, The First Religious Society, Newburyport, MA, 1834. Pipe Organs of the Merrimack Valley, The Northeast Organist Magazine.

Altri progetti modifica

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