Savart // (* 30. June 1791 in Charleville (Ardennen); "† 16. March 1841 in Paris) was a French physician and physicist, in early 19. Century together with Jean Baptiste Biot the connection between electric current and magnetism examined (Biot Savart law).

Savart examined likewise the characteristics of swinging strings and built a trapezoidal violin, whose klangliche characteristics could not convince. The original is in the museum of the Polytechnique"” in Paris. In center forest made improved reproduction from 1909 is in the German museum Munich.

The well-known French playing the violin farmer Jean Baptiste Vuillaume co-operated closely with Savart, in order to improve the quality of its instruments. On Holzstreifen of (180 mm x 25mm x 2,5mm) which play the violin the soil of Stradivarius and Guarnerius were taken, Savart strewed sand and it painted with a playing the violin elbow along the edge of the Holzstreifens and produced each time the clay/tone E and in the sand formed two parallel lines. The same attempt undertook it with the cover taken strips and stated that with this high-quality play the violin the clay/tone produced with the cover strip around exactly one clay/tone more highly lay than that to the soil more taken. With attempts with conventional, lay the difference mindesten play the violin with a Terze and could more than one Quarte be.

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Savart (after Savart unit designated)

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