Defn: to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Defn: A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.
A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.
A musical sound is made up of a certain number of pushes in a second, but each push is silent.
It is only, as we have seen, a musical sound to our Sense when the pushes recur at intervals of not more than the sixteenth part of a second.
When the number of vibrations in a second sinks below sixteen, the ear no longer appreciates them as a musical sound, but is able to hear them as separate vibrations or beats.
I felt it thrill and vibrate in my hand, and I fancied also that I could hear a kind of musical sound, for I cannot say it was a vocal note, passing across the room.
If I alter the rate at which the water flows you will see that the appearance is changed again, but it is never like a jet which is not acted upon by a musical sound.
Illustration: Experiment for showing by intermittent light the apparently stationary drops into which a fountain is broken up by the action of a musical sound.
Reading a scientific magazine one day, a single sentence impressed itself upon Hannibal Perkin's memory: "It is a well known fact that a musical sound can be heard distinctly at a greater distance than can an unmusical one.
It is a well known fact that a musical sound can be heard distinctly at a greater distance than an unmusical one.
Also, if a permanent magnet be suspended so as to give out a musical sound when it is struck, the magnetism will be much weakened by making it thus to vibrate.
If a glass tumbler be struck, it gives out a musical sound of a certain pitch, which will set a piano-string sounding that is tuned to the same pitch, provided that the damper be raised.
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