FatherMarie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle (March 24, 1727, inNédonchel – February 9, 1805, inFontainbleau) was a Frenchreligious prosecutor of the convent ofPetits-Augustins de Paris, surveyor and topographer, passionate about music and mechanics and inventor of a musical recording process.
He published his treatise in 1775La Tonotechnie ou l'Art de noter les cylindres, et tout ce qui est susceptible de notage dans les instruments de concerts méchaniques sur la façon de noter le picotage des rouleaux d'orgues mécaniques in English Tonotechnie or the Art of notating cylinders, and everything that is capable of noting in mechanical concert instruments on how to note the pecking of mechanical organ rolls.
His brother Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle (1734–1814), also an Augustinian monk in Paris, was a renowned entomologist who, who commissioned byJean-Baptiste-François Gigot d'Orcy published between 1779 and 1792 a publication illustrating the butterflies of Europe in 28 notebooks divided into 8 volumes of nearly 3000 drawings engraved then painted by hand which sold by subscription in 250 copies under the title: "Butterflies of Europe painted from nature by M.Ernst, engraved by M.Gérardin, and colored under their direction, described by R.P. Engramelle, Augustinian monk from the Saint Germain district". This work also illustrates lepidoptera from the cabinets of D'Orcy's fellow collectorJohann Christian Gerning.
Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle
Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle
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