Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 512
are produced by the fewestvibrations. Fourteen or fifteen vibrations will give us avery low note, if not the very lowest. The pipe of sixteenfeet, closed at its upper end, will produce sound waves ofthirty-two feet. High notes can be formed from vibrationsup to 48,000 in a second. Beyond these… … The vibration. at pleasure by a movable bridge, and stretched by weightsattached to the end. We can now easily perceive that the shorter and thinnerthe string is, and the tighter it is the number of vibrationswill be greater and greater. The density of it is also tobe considered, and when these…
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