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SMITH, ROBERT. Harmonics; or, The Philosophy of Musical Sounds.<> 28 folding engraved plates; 2 folding tables. xviii, [2], 280, [13] pages * A Postscript to Dr. Smith's Harmonics, upon the Changeable Harpsichord.<> Folding engraved plate. 12 pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked. London: T. and J. Merrill et al., 1759; 1762
Second edition of the main work, which originally appeared in 1749, and first edition of the Postscript. "Although it was partly a textbook, Smith's principal objective was to describe his system of tempering a musical scale by making 'all the consonances . . . as equally harmonious as possible . . . ' He derived the 'equally harmonic' intervals by a mathematical theory and confirmed his results on an organ and a harpsichord. Smith's temperament was an improvement on existing systems, but its use required impractical mechanical changes in the instruments"--DSB XII, 477.<
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