Source: Royal Philosophical Society, London, Philosophical Transactions, No. 141 (Sept.–Nov,, 1678), 1027–1029. At https://books.google.com/books?id=Umw1AQAAMAAJ.
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Classical amphitheaters & urban media
- Shannon Mattern, Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1pwt6rn.3.
- More about Prof. Mattern’s work can be found at https://wordsinspace.net/
- Theatre at Epidaurus: The Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/16/whisper-it-greek-amphitheatre-legendary-acoustics-myth-epidaurus , accessed 11 April, 2023.
- Pyramid of Kukalkán at Chichén Itzá:
- Peter Weiss, “Singing Stairs,” Science News 155, no. 3 (1999): 44–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/4011265.
Speech by Herochshe of the Kansa (Kaw) nation
- William M. Clements, “From Performance Through Dialogism to Efficacy,” In Oratory in Native North America (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2022), 103–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2pwtmff.8.
- Edwin James’ 1823 account of this speech in his book Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819 and 1820, Vol. II (London: Longman, 1823), 32–38. https://books.google.com/books?id=a39kAAAAcAAJasdf
Classical & other early megaphone tubes
- Adrienne Mayor, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018), 187. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc779xn.
- Louis Nicholas, “Codex Canadensis” at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/47267, accessed 8 April, 2023.
- “Plates of the Codex Canadensis” in Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet, Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas: The Natural History of the New World, Histoire Naturelle Des Indes Occidentales, edited by François-Marc Gagnon (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011), 93–256. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt12f406.7.
Classical & other early megaphone tubes
- Samuel Morland’s “speaking trumpet”: Royal Philosophical Society, London, Philosophical Transactions, No. 79 (22 Jan,, 1671), 3056–3058. At https://www.google.com/books/edition/Philosophical_Transactions_Giving_Some_A/zGs1AQAAMAAJ.
- John Conyers’ allegedly improved “reflecting trumpet”: Royal Philosophical Society, London, Philosophical Transactions, No. 141 (Sept.–Nov,, 1678), 1027–1029. At https://books.google.com/books?id=Umw1AQAAMAAJ.
The auxetophone
- Horace Short: https://shortbrothersaviationpioneers.co.uk/horace-leonard-short/ and https://shortbrothersaviationpioneers.co.uk/
- Auxetophone ad: The American Magazine, October 1906, [P. 619 of the PDF version—no page numbers seem to be present in the magazine itself https://books.google.com/books?id=6wBKCyuK8goC.
- Video of Victor auxetophone in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7SV65DFNy8 accessed 11 Apr., 2023.
- String concert with auxetophone ‘pickups’: “The Auxetophone.” The Musical Times 46, no. 754 (1905): 808–808. http://www.jstor.org/stable/904966.
- A website by a man named Douglas Self includes very useful information about compressed-air-based audio amplification. Despite our common initials of Douglas S. and the fact that I sometimes refer to my own person as self, he is not, to the best of my knowledge, me, or directly related to me in any way of which I’m aware. See http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/auxetophone/auxetoph.htm , accessed 10 Apr., 2023.
- Stack Exchange discussion about the loudest acoustic instrument: https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/52596/the-loudest-acoustic-instrument, accessed 9 Apr., 2023.
Sound files created and/or recorded by other people
- Quetzal song: From Paul Driver, created 30 May, 2013, https://xeno-canto.org/species/Pharomachrus-mocinno , accessed 9 Apr., 2023.
- Gerardo Loera, “Chichén Itza – sonido de quetzal,” audio extracted from https://youtu.be/cIyiloq3eRM, accessed 7 Apr., 2023.
