"Acoustical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only; each worker follows in the track of his predecessor, and eventually, perhaps, advances a step beyond him." And concerning the relative value of inventions in musical instruments, it appears, from an essay of his which has been recently published, that he considers improvement in acoustical proportions the chief foundation of the higher or lower degree of perfection in all instruments, their mechanism ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various |
