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study – diligence: Maddalena Monteduro
creation plans: Art and science gallery.com
design material: wooden (bubinga / walnut tree)
artist’s: George Paraschos, Averof Parashos
dimensions: a. 17cm/ b.12cm
edition year: 2016
prototype year: 1840 – 1860
copyright all over the wold: Art and science gallery.comGeorge Paraschos and his son, Averof, are widely known as two of the most known craftsmen of wind instruments.
Art and Science Gallery.com found them and prsent to you the first drawings of Pinard horn
The challenge was unique. At the beginning the felt incompetents of fullfilling our aims. On the onter hand we knew that if George and Averof Paraschos could not construct those ceramic or wooden sampls of musical instruments, then noone would.
They worked using the tools of Ferguson   time. A lot of experimentations were produced, always processed by hand, like thss orders which Art and Science Gallery .com take over.
The wooden spread of the screw, the acoustics of the sound pipe, all the details were prepared following the instructions for the first Pinard horn and Fergusson stethoscope.

The result was the consrtuctions of a  completely functional stethoscope, real jewel for every doctor’s office.
TheFerguson stethoscope was created by bubinga wood and after the cut was processed aiming the closure of the holes, according the methods of accoustics of the most importants wind instruments.about Adolphe Pinard

A Pinard horn is a tool used to listen the heart rate of a fetus during pregnancy. It is a type of stethoscope, formerly called a “fetoscope”, but the term is still sometimes associated with the Pinard stethoscope. Made of wood or metal and is hollow. It is about 8 inches long. It functions similarly to an ear trumpet by amplifying sound.
Adolphe Pinard (4 February 1844 – 1 March 1934) was a French obstetrician who was a native of Méry-sur-Seine. He practiced medicine in Paris, where he was an assistant to Étienne Stéphane Tarnier (1828–1897) and a professor of obstetrics, as well as a member of parliament for the Paris region.

Pinard was a pioneer of modern perinatal care and the “puericulture movement” — the teaching of infant care to expectant mothers in French obstetrics. His contribution in infant medicin examination and monter care established his fame until nowadays. Pinard name is also used in “Pinard’s maneuvre”, a technique used in breech extraction.

In 1895 he invented a special stethoscope for listening to fetal activity.

Pinard was a founder member of the French Eugenics Society in 1913 and served as its president. Eugenic ideas were incorporated into his idea of ‘puériculture’. He also served as a parliamentary deputy for the Radical party between 1919 and 1928, expressing his sympathy towards French feminism.

Today the Maternité Adolphe-Pinard in Nancy and the Boulevard Adolphe Pinard in Paris are named after him. This boulevard is a boundary between Paris and the city of Malakoff.