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9-481: McDowall may refer to: McDowall (surname) Clan Macdowall , a lowland Scottish clan McDowall, Queensland , Australia McDowall State School , a state primary school in Brisbane, Australia See also [ edit ] McDowell (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

18-670: A number of experimental and theoretical papers on acoustics , electromagnetism and astronomy . He was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1871 and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890. Bosanquet developed classes for musical tunings used mapping pitches in a coordinate arrangement he called a generalized keyboard , contrasting with Henry Ward Poole 's and Colin Brown's keyboards which were based on symmetry of key relationships. The keyboard

27-426: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet FRS FRAS (31 July 1841 – 7 August 1912) was an English scientist and music theorist, and brother of Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet , and philosopher Bernard Bosanquet . Bosanquet was the son of Rev. R. W. Bosanquet of Rock Hall , Alnwick , Northumberland . He

36-423: The surname McDowall . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McDowall_(surname)&oldid=1254918755 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

45-467: The arrangement to permit mapping 22 equal temperament . He also invented a sensitive polariscope working independent of direction. Well Temperament versus Equal Temperament: Marpurg is most likely at the source of a two-centuries misunderstanding that J. S. Bach would have been using the equal temperament for the performance of "Das Wohltemperierte Clavier", because of his publication "Versuch ΓΌber die musikalische Temperatur", 1776, this misunderstanding

54-2078: The πŸ’• McDowall , MacDowall or Macdowall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adrian J. McDowall , Scottish film director Alex MacDowall (born 1991), British auto racing driver Andrew McDowall (1913–1981), British flying ace with the Royal Air Force Archibald McDowall (1841–1918), Australian surveyor Betty McDowall , Australian actress Bob McDowall (1939–2011), New Zealand ichthyologist Cecilia McDowall , (born 1951), British composer Charles McDowall (1862–1916), Australian politician Cyndra MacDowall (born 1953), Canadian artist David McDowall , British Army general Day Hort MacDowall (1850–1927), politician from old Northwest Territories, Canada Drew McDowall (born 1961), Scottish musician Duncan MacDowall (born 1963), English former professional footballer Frederick McDowall (1900–1975), New Zealand scientist Iain McDowall , Scottish writer Ian McDowall , American chief executive Jack McDowall (1905–1969), American football player Jai McDowall (born 1986), Scottish musician Jamie McDowall (born 1947), English cricketer Kenny McDowall (born 1963), Scottish footballer Les McDowall (1912–1991), Scottish footballer and manager Margaret McDowall (born 1936), Scottish swimmer Rachel McDowall (born 1984), English actress Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet (1841–1912), English scientist and music theorist Robert McDowall (1821–1894), Scottish-born Australian cricketer Roddy McDowall (1928–1998), Anglo-American actor Rose McDowall (born 1959), Scottish musician William MacDowall , Scottish priest and Master of Works to Mary, Queen of Scots and her mother Mary of Guise See also [ edit ] Clan Macdowall , Scottish clan Dowall McDowell (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

63-467: The title McDowall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McDowall&oldid=932988957 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages McDowall (surname) From Misplaced Pages,

72-623: Was demonstrated in two instruments loaned permanently to the South Kensington Museum in 1876: a 4 1 ⁄ 2 -octave harmonium tuned in 53 equal temperament with 84 keys per octave built by T. A. Jennings in 1872–3, and a 3-octave generalized keyboard organ built in 1875 with 48 notes per octave tuned to Hermann von Helmholtz ' approximate just intonation ( schismatic temperament ) or 36 notes per octave tuned in quarter-comma meantone selected by means of draw stops. In 1877, speculating on papers about Indian Ε›rutis , he relaxed

81-702: Was educated at Eton College , and took first class honors in Natural Science and Mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford , and later became a fellow of St. John's College . He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn , London but worked mainly tutoring at Oxford, notably for the Natural Science School, and later was Professor of Acoustics at the Royal College of Music . He was a musician and an authority on organ construction, and published

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