A laboratory course in experimental physics (1896)
Loudon, W. J. (William James), McLennan, John Cunningham, joint author · New York and London, Macmillan and Co. · leaf 130
end being thenbrought into the vicinity of the complex note to be examined.Success in the experiment is best attained by closing, at thesame time, the aperture of the other ear. To obtain goodresults from a string, choose a steel one about six feet longand stretch it between two fixed supports… … Fig. 17. a little practice with the resonators, they may be discardedand most of the overtones still heard by the unassisted ear.With steel and copper strings, the third harmonic is oftenlouder than the fundamental; and it is, no doubt, owing to thepresence of these overtones in the string that…
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