Despite the lack of evidence that Galileo ever performed the experiment, there is solid evidence that Stevin did the experiment himself by 1586 (three years before Galileo) when he published his book on buoyancy and statics. It is possible that the leaning tower of Pisa was substituted for the leaning tower of Delft in Viviani’s hagiography of Galileo, or that Galileo, knowing of Stevin’s experiment, described what would have happened had he repeated it. Although Stevin had no personal connection to Galileo in the realm of physics, he did have a connection in the realm of music theory, not to Galileo himself, but to Galileo’s father.