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This began even when he was an undergraduate student at the Baldwin College (now Baldwin Wallace University). His goal was to develop methods of analyzing the sounds of musical instruments with the objective of finding even better materials and designs. His personal collection of flutes, the largest such in the world, has been preserved at the Library of Congress since the 1940s. Working with strictly mechanical devices, Miller sought to determine the detailed sound spectra of a variety of instruments, most especially musical flutes, as well as spoken vowel sounds. He advanced from the simple manometric flame, in which gas flow to a tiny flame is controlled by a diaphragm exposed to sound, to his own invention, the phonodeik, where a tiny mirror is moved by the diaphragm. The resulting photographs of sound traces were quantitatively interpreted by aHenrici harmonic analyzer.Miller worked with manufacturers of phonograph records, radio speakers, etc., to compare output with studio sounds. We will bring along several of Miller s instruments, and show sample data, using Miller s own lantern slides.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eDayton Miller was chair of physics from the 1890s until the 1930s at the Case School of Applied Science (now Case Western Reserve University) in Cleveland. He had many interests in basic research, but his passion was musical acoustics. This began even when he was an undergraduate student at the Baldwin College (now Baldwin Wallace University). His goal was to develop methods of analyzing the sounds of musical instruments with the objective of finding even better materials and designs. His personal collection of flutes, the largest such in the world, has been preserved at the Library of Congress since the 1940s. Working with strictly mechanical devices, Miller sought to determine the detailed sound spectra of a variety of instruments, most especially musical flutes, as well as spoken vowel sounds. He advanced from the simple manometric flame, in which gas flow to a tiny flame is controlled by a diaphragm exposed to sound, to his own invention, the phonodeik, where a tiny mirror is moved by the diaphragm. The resulting photographs of sound traces were quantitatively interpreted by aHenrici harmonic analyzer.Miller worked with manufacturers of phonograph records, radio speakers, etc., to compare output with studio sounds. 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