 Through the two floors passed a tin tube 2 \ inches in diameter, with a wooden rod inside of it, the end of which projected into the lecture-room. The rod was clasped by India-rubber bands which completely closed the tube. The lower end of the rod rested...  Elements of Sound: Light, and Heat - Page 29by William James Rolfe - 1868 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1878 - 300 pages
...place this violin upon the end of the rod; the violin becomes instantly musical, — not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings, but with those of the piano. I remove the violin, the sound ceases ; I put in its place a guitar, and the sound revives. For the... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - General - 1871 - 618 pages
...I place this violin upon the end of the rod; the violin becomes instantly musical — not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings, but with those of the piano. I remove the violin : the sound -ceases. I put in its place a guitar, and the music revives. For the... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1880 - 544 pages
...place this violin upon the end of the rod ; the violin becomes instantly musical, — not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings, but with those of the piano. I remove the violin, the sound ceases ; I put in its place a guitar, and (he sound revives. For the... | |
 | John Broadhouse - 1881 - 456 pages
...a violin is placed upon the end of the rod, the instrument becomes instantly musical, not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings, but with those of the piano. When the violin is removed, the sound ceases; putting in its place a guitar, the music revives. For... | |
 | Francis Asbury Shoup - Personality - 1891 - 380 pages
...sound. I place this violin upon the end of the rod ; the violin becomes instantly musical, not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings but with those of the piano. I remove the violin, the sound ceases ; I put in its place a guitar, and the music revives. For the... | |
 | Joseph Battell - Sound - 1909 - 352 pages
...a violin is placed upon the end of the rod, the instrument becomes instantly musical, not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings, but with those of the piano. When the violin is removed, the sound ceases ; putting in its place a guitar, the music revives. For... | |
 | Floyd Rowe Watson - Architectural acoustics - 1923 - 172 pages
...a violin is placed upon the end of the rod, the instrument becomes instantly musical, not, however, with the vibrations of its own strings, but with those of the piano. When the violin is removed, the sound ceases. * * * * What a curious transference of action is here... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Physics - 1874 - 546 pages
...Tyndall, following the Germans, calls the mixture of the fundamental tone and its overtones a clang, and the quality of the clang the clang-tint. Different...every note of the piano was reproduced as before. An ordinary music-box may be used instead of the piano in this experiment. Musical sounds, then, like... | |
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