Re: Frequency range in 1770

From: Don Malone (lonemonad@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 04 2010 - 20:40:39 EDT


he had obviously been to too many rock concerts

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On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@videotron.ca>wrote:

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> William Billings (1748-1800)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Billings
> in the The New-England Psalm-Singer (1770), noted that the frequency range
> of human perception was 500 or 600 "in the space of a second" (cycles) for
> the gravest tones (low), to six or seven thousand [cycles) "tremors" for the
> acute tones (high frequency).
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