Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied, for the use of colleges and schools (1898)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887 · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 260
nstrumentalists usually give equally tempered intervals. Only in the case of string quartet players, who have freed themselves from school rules, and in that of vocal quartet singers, who sing frequently without accompaniment, does the natural pure temperament assert itself, and thus produce the… … into tune jointly by having their remaining notes separately adjusted with reference to the funda¬ mental note. A tuning-fork or diapason is an instrument yielding a con¬ stant sound, and is used as a standard for tuning musical instruments. It consists of an elastic steel rod, bent as represented…
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