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Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz Sedley Taylor. 000 Harvard College Library LUM ACADEM GILLU CHRISTO VARDIANAE IN NOV. Front Cover.
Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz Sedley Taylor. 000 Harvard College Library LUM ACADEM GILLU CHRISTO VARDIANAE IN NOV. Front Cover.
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Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz Sedley Taylor. Harvard College Library LUM ACADEM GILLU CHRISTO VARDIANAE IN NOV FROM THE FUND OF CHARLES MINOT Class of 1828 MUSIC LIBRARY JAN 31 2000 FEB 0/1 2001 Printed ...
Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz Sedley Taylor. Harvard College Library LUM ACADEM GILLU CHRISTO VARDIANAE IN NOV FROM THE FUND OF CHARLES MINOT Class of 1828 MUSIC LIBRARY JAN 31 2000 FEB 0/1 2001 Printed ...
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... ACOUSTICAL DISCOVERIES OF PROFESSOR HELMHOLTZ . BY SEDLEY TAYLOR , M. A. LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . London : MACMILLAN AND CO . [ All Rights reserved . ] Mus 97 : $ 23.5 ° 1873. Nev . 7 1873 . SOUND AND MUSIC :
... ACOUSTICAL DISCOVERIES OF PROFESSOR HELMHOLTZ . BY SEDLEY TAYLOR , M. A. LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . London : MACMILLAN AND CO . [ All Rights reserved . ] Mus 97 : $ 23.5 ° 1873. Nev . 7 1873 . SOUND AND MUSIC :
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... COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE , June , 1873 . 1 Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen . Dritte Ausgabe . Braunschweig . 1870. Of this profound and exhaustive treatise it is not too much to say that it does for Acoustics what the Principia of Newton ...
... COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE , June , 1873 . 1 Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen . Dritte Ausgabe . Braunschweig . 1870. Of this profound and exhaustive treatise it is not too much to say that it does for Acoustics what the Principia of Newton ...
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... fact a much closer one than the rough nature of the observation would have led one to expect . In the North cloister of Trinity College , Cambridge , there is an unusually distinct echo from the wall at I. § 3. ] 5 VELOCITY OF SOUND . 20.
... fact a much closer one than the rough nature of the observation would have led one to expect . In the North cloister of Trinity College , Cambridge , there is an unusually distinct echo from the wall at I. § 3. ] 5 VELOCITY OF SOUND . 20.
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absolute pitch Accordingly air-column Cambridge chapters chords clang cloth coincides College combination-tone complete composite sounds concord condensation consonance and dissonance contains corresponding crest Crown 8vo direction discord dissonance effect ELEMENTARY TREATISE equal temperament exactly examine fact Fifth follows fork forms of vibration Fourth fundamental tone harmonium heard Helmholtz Hence higher human voice Illustrations instrument intensity inversion Lectures length level-line loudness lower Major scale Major Third ment Minor Seventh Minor Sixth mode of vibration motion musical sound nodes notation obtained octave open pipe original overtones pair partial-tones particle pendulum pianoforte piston pitch position present principles produced Professor prong pulse pulse-length rapid rarefaction resonance result scale shown simple tones single musical stopped pipe string student swing theory tion tonic Tonic Sol-Fa triads trough tube tuning tuning-fork unison ventral segments vibration-fraction vibration-numbers vibrations per second wave-form wires
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