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An Enquiry into the Principal Phaenomena of Sounds
Author: Matthew Young
Publisher: Joseph Hill, Dublin
Date: 1784
First edition. Rare. Octavo. Quarter vellum with blue-green paper boards.
2ff., 1 folding plate of engraved diagrams, 203 pp. + 1 plate.
"The Enquiry is divided into two sections: The first is on sounds in general,
their propagation, decay, augmentation, and reflection; The second is on
musical strings and contains an examination of the motion of elastic fibres,
sympathetic tones, secondary tones, acute harmonic tones, the aeolian harp,
and the grave harmonic tones." Kassler, The Science of music in Britain, p.
1085.
Dimensions: 9.25x5.75in
Condition: Binding worn and soiled; joints splitting; titling in manuscript
to spine. Title page slightly soiled, with paper loss to blank outer and lower
margins and one short tear not affecting text; Some marginal worming to last
two leaves; several small marginal tears. An attractive copy overall: crisp,
wide-margined and untrimmed. With an inscription from the noted English music
antiquarian and collector T.W. Taphouse to front pastedown.
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