<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [CAUT] Inharmonicity, "Link to Young Paper"</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I came across a very interesting review of a new book about Thomas Young in the Guardian today, "The Last Man Who Knew Everything" which may be of interest...</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1993741,00.html" >http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1993741,00.html</a></blockquote > <div><br></div> <div>Lest anyone be confused, Thomas Young (1773-1829) is not the author of the inharmonicity paper which is being discussed here. That is Robert W. Young (1908- ), who was still living at least as recently as 1995. The latter was a twentieth century physicist who specialized in musical acoustics, and was the editor of that section of the JASA for many years. He worked for GC Conn early in his career and was co-inventor of the Conn stroboscope, along with Hugo Shuck, with whom he wrote an earlier article on inharmonicity than the 1952 article being discussed here. The invention of this device is probably the reason he was able to investigate inharmonicity quantitatively at the time he did.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Stephen</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Stephen Birkett<br> http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett</div> </body> </html>