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| Title | Sound and Music: a Non-mathematical Treatise on the Physical Constitution of Musical Sounds and Harmony: Including the Chief Acoustical Discoveries of Professor Helmholtz |
| Author | Sedley Taylor |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1873 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 29, 2007 |
| Length | 219 pages |
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