Vitruvius’s resonator scheme has gone empirically untested for millennia

Evidence

Alas, probably Sabine is right, but it would still be interesting to put Vitruvius’s prescription to the test, something that has not been done, it seems, for thousands of years. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 1262

Categorization

Category: Inspiration and Speculation

• QUESTION: A modern experimental test of Vitruvius’s bronze-vessel arrangement has apparently never been done — a genuinely open empirical question.
• SEED: The two-thousand-year controversy over whether Vitruvius’s resonator array could work, never resolved by experiment, could anchor a piece on how received acoustical wisdom persists untested.

Related

• Vitruvius’s bronze theater vessels were Helmholtz resonators (similarity 0.79)
• Sabine rejected Vitruvius’s vessel sound-enhancement scheme as impossible (similarity 0.79)