汪孟舒先生，字希董，江蘇省蘇州市人，一八八七年出生於故鄉，一九六九年病逝於北京。宣統元年（一九Ｏ九年），以京師農工商部高等實業學堂機器專科最優等畢業，後以其專業服務社會。汪先生善書畫，喜收藏，其操縵之藝傳自葉詩夢，得其真傳，名聞一方，又獲葉氏舊藏，盛唐雷威所斵名琴“春雷”，此琴曾列宋徽宗萬琴堂之首；亦藏有“枯木龍吟”琴，皆為名琴中之珍品。新中國成立後，被中國音樂研究所聘為特約研究員，畢生致力琴學之研究，從事譜錄的搜集、影摹、輯錄、校勘與注釋。一九五七年定稿了《烏絲欄指法釋》，又曾抄錄了《詩夢齋琴譜》一部。
WANG Meng-shu was born in 1887 in his ancestral home Suzhou, Jiangsu Province and passed away of illness in 1969 in Beijing. His first name was Xi Dong. In 1909, he graduated from school in Beijing. He was skillful at Chinese painting and calligraphy which he learned from YE Shi-meng. He liked to preserve antiques. Many famous qins were preserved by him. He was appointed to the Music Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Arts as a specially invited research fellow. From 1957, he started to have his researched results by many writings.