Sound and Music: a Non-mathematical Treatise on the Physical Constitution of Musical Sounds and Harmony: Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz |
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... original loudness . It results from this experiment that Sound cannot travel in vacuo , but requires for its transmission a material medium of some kind . The air of the atmosphere is , in the vast majority of cases , the medium which ...
... original loudness . It results from this experiment that Sound cannot travel in vacuo , but requires for its transmission a material medium of some kind . The air of the atmosphere is , in the vast majority of cases , the medium which ...
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... original position . It then crosses the level - line ; is on the front of the trough in ( 6 ) , and at its lowest point in ( 7 ) , where it attains its greatest distance below the level - line . In ( 8 ) , it is on the back of the ...
... original position . It then crosses the level - line ; is on the front of the trough in ( 6 ) , and at its lowest point in ( 7 ) , where it attains its greatest distance below the level - line . In ( 8 ) , it is on the back of the ...
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... original rest in the level - line . The law of its vibration is roughly indicated in Fig . 11 . Fig.11 5 B 6 7 -1 8- -0,16 9 -15 10- -14 11- -13 12- A AB is the path described by any drop ; O its position when in the level line ; 1 , 2 ...
... original rest in the level - line . The law of its vibration is roughly indicated in Fig . 11 . Fig.11 5 B 6 7 -1 8- -0,16 9 -15 10- -14 11- -13 12- A AB is the path described by any drop ; O its position when in the level line ; 1 , 2 ...
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... original meaning , and to designate as wave - motion any movement which comes under the definition just laid down . We proceed to an instance of such motion which is important from its similarity to that to which the transmission of ...
... original meaning , and to designate as wave - motion any movement which comes under the definition just laid down . We proceed to an instance of such motion which is important from its similarity to that to which the transmission of ...
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... original position , A , ( 1 ) , as , in ( 2 ) , it was to the right of it . The air in CD , ( 2 ) , will , while this is taking place , expand into EF ; for , being denser , it will also be at a greater pressure , than the air to the ...
... original position , A , ( 1 ) , as , in ( 2 ) , it was to the right of it . The air in CD , ( 2 ) , will , while this is taking place , expand into EF ; for , being denser , it will also be at a greater pressure , than the air to the ...
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absolute pitch Accordingly air-column assigned called chords coincides combination-tone complete composite sounds concord consonance and dissonance contains corresponding crest Crown 8vo direction discord dissonance effect English equal temperament exactly fact fcap Fifth fixed follows fork forms of vibration Fourth fundamental tone fundamental-tone give rise harmonium heard Helmholtz Hence human voice instrument intensity inversion length level-line loudness lower Major scale Major Third ment middle 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 produced prong pulse-length rapid rarefaction reader resonance resonance-boxes result says scale semi-tone shown simple tones single musical stopped pipe string suppose theory tion tonic Tonic Sol-Fa triads trough tube tuning tuning-fork unison ventral segments vibration-fraction vibration-numbers vibrations per second volume wave-form wave-length wires
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