Henderson, C. Hanford (Charles Hanford), 1861-1941, Woodhull, John F. (John Francis), 1857-1941 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 378
and violin, itwill be noticed that there is something distinctive abouteach note, and we can generally recognize the source of the GENERAL PRINCIPLES 355 note. It can not be a difference in the fundamental tone,as the pitch is the same in all four notes. Yet so real andsubtle is it, that it makes… … Fig. 247.—Siren. in the quality of sound is due to overtones or secondarysound waves that accompany the fundamental or majorsound, and give it so characteristic a coloring that no twohuman voices, and no two instruments, even of the sameclass and make, ever sound precisely the same note. Froma…
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