Vincenzo Galilei

In his study of pitch and string tension, Galilei produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history.

He was born in 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte, near Pisa, Tuscany[2] and began studying the lute at an early age.

In 1563, he met Gioseffo Zarlino, the most important music theorist of the sixteenth century, in Venice, and began studying with him.

[5][6] Somewhat later he became interested in the attempts to revive ancient Greek music and drama, by way of his association with the Florentine Camerata,[7] a group of poets, musicians and intellectuals led by Count Giovanni de' Bardi, as well as his contacts with Girolamo Mei,[8] the foremost scholar of the time of ancient Greek music.

[citation needed] Vincenzo Galilei was one of the pioneers in the systematic study of acoustics, mainly in his research (assisted by his son Galileo) in the mathematical formula of stretched strings.

[citation needed] Galilei made discoveries in acoustics, particularly involving the physics of vibrating strings and columns of air.