Tyndall, John, 1820-1893 · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 104
CAL STRINGS EXPERIMENTS OF MFLDE—STRINGS SET IN VIBRATION BY TUNING-FORKS LAWS OF VIBRATION THUS DEMONSTRATED—HARMONIC TONES OF STRINGS—DEFINITION OF TIMBRE OR QUALITY, OF OVERTONES AND CLANG ABOLITION OF SPECIAL HARMONICS—CONDITIONS WHICH AFFECT THE INTENSITY OF THE HARMONIC TONES—OPTICAL… … form are rendered available as sources of musical sounds,and to investigate the laws of their vibrations. To enable a musical string to vibrate transversely, orat right angles to its length, it must be stretched between g2 84 LECTURE ITI. two rigid points. Before you, fig. 31, is an…
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