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... named after Pythagoras , a machine not intended for artistic performance , but which at once yielded immense practical results to music . We then enter into a long period during which instrumental appliances grew , without design and ...
... named after Pythagoras , a machine not intended for artistic performance , but which at once yielded immense practical results to music . We then enter into a long period during which instrumental appliances grew , without design and ...
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... named strings . They have contributed the largest share to instruments of all times and all countries , and were early employed for more accurate determinations . Their theory is simple comparatively to that of other sound - producers ...
... named strings . They have contributed the largest share to instruments of all times and all countries , and were early employed for more accurate determinations . Their theory is simple comparatively to that of other sound - producers ...
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... named . A current of air directed against a string has long been known to be competent to excite it , and the Æolian harp has been constructed on this principle . Latterly attempts bave been made to render this conibination less The ...
... named . A current of air directed against a string has long been known to be competent to excite it , and the Æolian harp has been constructed on this principle . Latterly attempts bave been made to render this conibination less The ...
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... named above . They were first , like them , investi- gated by Chladni , but they have hitherto contributed no instrument to music , and are chiefly of a mathematical and theoretical interest . Lateral Vibrations of Elastic Rods , on the ...
... named above . They were first , like them , investi- gated by Chladni , but they have hitherto contributed no instrument to music , and are chiefly of a mathematical and theoretical interest . Lateral Vibrations of Elastic Rods , on the ...
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... named above . The Tuning - fork , as an acoustical instrument of paramount interest , requires to be described in detail . It may be looked upon as an elastic bar , free at both ends , and supported in the middle where the stem is ...
... named above . The Tuning - fork , as an acoustical instrument of paramount interest , requires to be described in detail . It may be looked upon as an elastic bar , free at both ends , and supported in the middle where the stem is ...
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bassoon beats bell Cambridge cartilages cavity chords clarinet comma consonant corresponding Crown 8vo density Edition elasticity ELEMENTARY TREATISE English enharmonic equal temperament Eton College excited experiments Extra fcap fifth flame flute fork fundamental note give harmonic harmonium heard heat Helmholtz HISTORY human voice instrument intervals J. P. MAHAFFY John's College keyboard keys late Fellow LATIN length longitudinal Lord Rayleigh lower major Mathematical membrane metal method metres Minor Sixth minor third monochord motion musical tones named nodes number of vibrations numerous Illustrations oboe octave ordinary organ Owens College Oxford perfect perfect fifths pipe pitch plate prime tone produced Professor ratio reed resonance rotating scale schismas School semitone sharpened siren sixth sonorous source of sound stopped string temperament temperature termed tonometer tube tuned tuning-fork unison upper partial tones velocity of sound vibration number violin wave wave-length