New-York tribune., 1910-01-23

uais. fartiais are always feeble rea-
ton from high point reveals the Boston
ese soul vibrating in unison to a deep note
comparatively near New York's. Buffalo
is somewhat similar. Washington when
Congress is in session, is said to have such
hot notes that they cannot be written on
paper without dashes, while the under
tones are scandalous and the overtones
often get into g free fight
Parades and celebrations with plenty Of
cheering yield a shriu tone way up in the
scale-D4 This is the twelfth above the
metropolitan fundamental Anger makes
a crowd rumble downward with low in
tensity, but great content of sound. A
lively political meeting, or a mob bent on
lynching, produce a sound which is about
a fifth below Az, or D1. There are great
possibilities in the using of this knowledge
TO maintain law and order. Suppose that
sheriffs and policemen had tuning forks
and ascertained the pitch OF a political
meeting or a riotous gathering. sharp
would be justification for calling out the
militia, and E fat. or shortly before, would
be time for the police to draw clubs.
NOT MUSIC OF TIE SPHERES.
Among Industrial symphonies, steel
works which make rails out Of ingots, al
most take the cake When the white-hot
ingot is drawn through the rollers there
is high screaming shrek. If one hun
dred prime donne were executing Wag-
ner's Ride Of the Valkyries..' There is "A
deep fundamental and harsh, hideous see
saw between AS and the fourth below. The
auditor feels as if his ear drums were being
operated on without stovaine- This is GER
tainly not the music Of the spheres nor the
most attractive kind Of industrial har-
mony. Nor is it possible to improve it, as
in the case OF a boiler factory, whose dis
continuous resonances might well be welded
by a conductor into a tolerable, II rather
deafening, tone poem. IF a number Of boil
ers were made at once and the men swung
their hammers in unison, low funda-
mental and sundry overtones would be pro-
duced. A careful scoring of light and heavy
hammers would put Verdfs anvil chorus in
the shade
The case is similar with the air hammers
used by riveters on steel office structures.
When the tapping OF several hammers
chances to coincide there is a faint funda-
mental of CT. surmounted by a multitude
of clattery overtones. Generally the ham
rners are TOO slow. making only about ten
strokes a second, while twenty strokes a
second are needed to produce a musical
sound. The lowest tone on the piano con-
sists of tWenty-seven vibrations to the
second. However when the merry riveters'
hammers overlap the sounds coalesce to
to the ear, though briefly. and a musical
sound is heard The ear catches a note
that is q short in duration as one-sixteenth
OF a second.
The exhaust Of a. locomotive at the start
is only a series of shocks. but it becomes
Az when the train is speeding, and there
are interningled overtones of the wheels
a fifth above the fundamental. long
Pullman train has a deep tone, while
light fast train ascends the scale. The
click OF its rails is not strictly musical.
but it is a permissible part of the indus
trial Instrumentation. Every one has noticed
the pleasing variation in the sound OF en-
gine whistles approaching and recedlng-
A printing press at full speed has
fundamental tone of d., and a strong fifth
above which is A3 It is said that there
are dissonant overtones and brassy color
Of sound when yellow newspapers are be-
ing printed Telegraph offices have low
fundamental of A3 beneath the multitude
nous clicking and the clatter Of dissonant
oyertones In telephone offices there is a
vocal effect seesawing between G2 and ca
due to the nezzo-soprano range OF the glrl
operatives Sometimes a subscriber makes
a complaint over the wires. and then there
are overtones that reach high or even
fall off the upper end Of the scale
THE GRASS CUTTER NOTE.
while the farmer. seated on his horse
drawn grass cutter. trolls a ditty IN the
lows of bucolic life. his machine contrib
sI,a n
2 deeper and more emotional utterance is
afforded nv the reaping machine. the same
beinS F3 sharp. The reaper has tender
..z-o1 bulnana'' effect, but when II strikes
2 rock or gets out of kilter in some way
the farmer spoils the music with his OBJ
jurgations.
sawu1iu is full of music which only
needs TO be regulated in order to produce
an enchanting effect. Every saw has
different tone. The circular saw produces
the hest continuous musical tone. BY
counting the revolutions and the number OF
teeth il is possible TO ascertain the exact
tone Of a saw. However. the thickness OF
the wood which is being sawed makes
difference in the tone production AS the
+ae+b nepotiate the thin end of a stick of
wood and travel down TO the thick end the
note descends a full octave from CA to
C3. The band saw. which generally goes
faster than the circular saw, has a tone
around b. The total music of a sawrnill
is a deep hum around CT, with remarkable
martial tones OF the second. the third and
the fourth. Il is the throbbing OF the en-
g1nes which gives the deep fundamental.
The nartials are stronger than the ground
tone There is series OF rarclca4 oVertone
dissonances, sounding like waw-waw-waw-
vayv. or the walls Of lovelorn catamount,
which have no harmonic relation TO the
musical foundation
silk or cotton mills produce noise rather
than music There is an immense number
NJ small irregular shocks, caused by the
striking Of the shuttles at the ends OF the
loon, frames The resultant of the sounds
is faint.
Tug and ferryboat whistles range from
10 N c3. while the big sirens on ocean
I.~-ars used in fogs shake the atmosphere
-,-;,tt the profound tone of Gl. The hoarse
,,eI,ou, or boom of the siren Is an unforget-
800 sound When the metropolitan
: h,s,Ies ashore and afioat get together
80 &C. a resultant which comes TO Az fat.
automobiles usually limit themselves 70 a
.,,aorous cough, but a six-cylinder high
srade machine when speeding develops
e., ,,,rr going down TO G2- Here again is
t,ca for the Police Department 10
" raalxers with a tuning forL,