...consists of two stopped pipes with a common base. Hence it is plain that the note of an open pipe must be the same as that of a stopped pipe of half its length. The length of a stopped pipe is one-fourth that of the sonorous wave which it produces, while the length...

...consists of two stopped pipes with a common base. Hence it is plain that the note of an open pipe must be the same as that of a stopped pipe of half its length. The length of a stopped pipe is one-fourth that of the sonorous wave which it produces, while the length...

...stopped pipes with a common base. Hence it is plain that the fundamental note of an open pipe must be the same as that of a stopped pipe of half its length. " The length of a stopped pipe is one.fourth that of the sonorous wave which it produces, while the...

...except at the extremities, there is neither node nor loop. The overtones of the pipe are the odd 1 Pogg. Ann. t. CLVII. p. 61, 1876. 2 On the Circulation of...sounding the whole series of tones forming the harmonic scale founded upon its principal tone. In the case of the octave there is a loop at the centre of the...

...the student has determined the pitch of the tubes ' by ear.' The text l1as assumed the correctness of the ordinary rule that the pitch of an open pipe...same as that of a stopped pipe of half its length. The rule is only approximately correct: Rayleigh, ii., 61,201; Helmholtz, Sensations of Tone, 88 (and...

...subsequent chapter. 261.] EXPERIMENT8 OF 8AVART AND KONIG. 61 harmonics, twelfth, higher third, &e., corresponding to the various subdivisions of the column...sounding the whole series of tones forming the harmonic scale founded upon its principal tone. In the case of the octave there is a loop at the centre of the...