Unison beats good?

[Delwin D Fandrich]

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who was the first to produce radio
waves artificially.  He lived from 1857 to 1894.  His nephew was instrumental in
developing the atom bomb for the Russians.  I don't remember the exact date when
he was honored by calling cycles per second (cps) Hertz, or Hz.  I think it was
during the mid- to late- sixties.

Del

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kam544@earthlink.net wrote:

> >...The
> >article was written before the term Hertz was in common useage, so of
> >course it *doesn't* occur in the article...
> >
> >Don Rose...
>
> Because of your statement I searched through my piano books and found Hertz
> only referenced in Reblitz's book (p37, published 1976).  The indexes in
> other works used words such as cycles, cents, vibrations, beats, waves, but
> did not reference Hertz.
>
> Do you have a history on when the word, Hertz came into being, Don?
>
> Keith McGavern
> kam544@earthlink.net
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA