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7. On certain Effects of Periodic Variation of Intensity of a Musical Note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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Recent discussions as to the nature of vowel-sounds have led us to make experiments (partly with an apparatus constructed some years ago for the same purpose) upon the effect of a periodic variation of intensity of a simple tone.
It is obviously impossible to secure a simple harmonic variation, so we endeavoured to produce a displacement varying as
1 − cos mt.
An organ-pipe, giving a tone very free from harmonics, was sounded on one side of a partition in which were cut a series of large holes.
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