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Notes on the Construction of the Violin, 1902
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1at points about one-fourth of their length from each end, and made to vibrate transversely so as to emit their fundamental notes for that method of vibration. The following were the results obtained:
3Three rods of deal (pine, no doubt) from instruments dated respectively 1690, 1724 and 1730, yielded the same note F = 682 vibrations; and two rods of maple (? sycamore), dated 1708 and 1717, gave the note A sharp = 450 vibrations.
5In the ordinary course of things the record of these experiments would be open to a certain amount of suspicion, for it is in the highest degree anomalous.
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