The Telephone / An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action

by A. E. Dolbear

TONE COMPOSITION.

The components of the tones are indicated by lines in the column underneath the figures representing the series. Thus the narrow-stopped organ-pipe gives a sound composed of a fundamental, and overtones three, five, seven, and nine times the number of vibrations of it.