Re: [tuning] Digest Number 3298-Heaviside

By following a link from Dave Seidel's wife's Heaviside page I contacted
Alan Heather, who is a descendant of OH and keeper of family papers and
this is what he told me.

>The reference appears in the transcript of a scientific paper read to the Centenary
Meeting here in Torquay by Sir George Lee, a past president of the
Royal Society.

In it he said, referring to Oliver: "One of his friends, Mr. F.
Willams, tells how he and
his wife spent many enjoyable musical evenings with Heaviside, who was
fond of
Schubert. Heaviside found great pleasure in playing his beloved
Schubert on an
'aolian' and this instrument is still in existence.

"He also devised an original musical notation which he claimed was
easier to read than
the classical system of staves, bars and notes".

I am sorry to tell you that despite extensive research by me, including
searching OH's
former home which is across the valley from me, and his brother's music
shop also
nearby, and family archives, I have not been able to trace anything
further regarding
this matter.<

So, it appears that the trail has gone cold. A source for the reference
is the Heaviside Centenary Volume published in London by the I.E.E. in
1950.

--John

That's fascinating, John. I have written to Paul Nahin, and I'll report what I hear (if anything), but it seems unlikely that he'll anything more to add.

- Dave

>By following a link from Dave Seidel's wife's Heaviside page I contacted
>Alan Heather, who is a descendant of OH and keeper of family papers and
>this is what he told me.
>
> >
>>The reference appears in the transcript of a scientific paper read to the Centenary
>> >>
>Meeting here in Torquay by Sir George Lee, a past president of the
>Royal Society.
> >In it he said, referring to Oliver: "One of his friends, Mr. F.
>Willams, tells how he and
>his wife spent many enjoyable musical evenings with Heaviside, who was
>fond of
>Schubert. Heaviside found great pleasure in playing his beloved
>Schubert on an
>'aolian' and this instrument is still in existence.
> >"He also devised an original musical notation which he claimed was
>easier to read than
>the classical system of staves, bars and notes".
> >I am sorry to tell you that despite extensive research by me, including
>searching OH's
>former home which is across the valley from me, and his brother's music
>shop also
>nearby, and family archives, I have not been able to trace anything
>further regarding
>this matter.<
>
>So, it appears that the trail has gone cold. A source for the reference
>is the Heaviside Centenary Volume published in London by the I.E.E. in
>1950.
>
>--John
> >