Tenor Recorder
Tenor Recorder
- Description
- Olive C. Hazlett (1890–1974), a leading American mathematician of the 1920s, received this wooden tenor recorder from the family of astronomer Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) . Hazlett gave the recorder to a mathematician, Grace Shover (1906–1998), whom she had befriended at national mathematics meetings. Grace Shover Quinn and her physicist husband, Robert B. Quinn (1907–1993), gave the instrument and its instruction book to the Smithsonian Institution in 1983.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 63 cm x 5.2 cm x 5.2 cm; 24 13/16 in x 2 1/16 in x 2 1/16 in
- ID Number
- 1983.0873.01
- accession number
- 1983.0873
- catalog number
- 1983.0873.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Grace Shrover Quinn and Robert Quinn
- subject
- Mathematics
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Women Mathematicians
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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