“…The philosopher and psychologist Carl Stumpf founded the first Institute for Psychology at the University of Berlin and thereafter the Phonogramm-Archiv in 1900 (Christensen, 1991;Koch, 2013;Martinelli, 2014;Simon, 1973;Stockmann, 1992;Stockmann & Kaden, 1986). While Stumpf trained students in experimental sound perception (above all Wolfgang Köhler), we are here interested in his students in musicology, especially Erich von Hornbostel (1878Hornbostel ( -1935 and to a lesser degree Otto Abraham (1872Abraham ( -1926, Curt Sachs (1881Sachs ( -1959, Max Wertheimer (1880Wertheimer ( -1943 and Robert Lachmann (1892-1939.…”