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On the Beats of Mistuned Harmonic Consonances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

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The present Paper forms a continuation of one presented to the Association a short time ago. The subject was first put prominently before the Association in Mr. Spottiswoode's Paper “On Beats and Combination Tones.” I subsequently showed some of the elementary experimental methods by means of which I attempted to deal with the questions raised. Since that time I have been placed in possession of much larger means for dealing with these questions. I propose to give to-day some account of the experiments and results I have since arrived at. The apparatus does not differ in principle from that formerly exhibited to you; and as the improvement in its efficiency is principally due to the introduction of a large bellows driven by a steam-engine, and the experiments themselves are not suitable for verification by an audience, I have not attempted to bring any of the apparatus here.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1881

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References

See Philosophical Magazine, October, 1880.Google Scholar

Preyer, “Akustische Untersuchungen,” p. 13.Google Scholar

I take this entry to show that no progress had been made with the resolution of the phenomenon into its elements.Google Scholar

Philosophical Magazine, 1881. Series v., vol. xi., p. 492.Google Scholar