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Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds; By Robert Smith,
Harmonics or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds By Robert Smith Author:Robert Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1749 Original Publisher: printed by J. Bentham, and sold there by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill, and by S. Austen and J. Whiston in London Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th... more »e General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Will alfo be perfect, and fo will their compounds with any number of vmtki. Now it is obfervable of the feven elements T, T, T, /, /, H, H, which com- pofe an octave, that T and H, T and / are the only couples which make perfect thirds (d), all the reft, T and T, / and /, / and H, H and H, making thirds imperfect by a comma, except H and H, which compofe an imperfect tone, bigger than the major tone by almoft a comma (e). Hence either T and H, or T and / muft be the outermoft elements in the octave, as in the following table. For (f) Se« less