From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Joseph Barclay Pentland (?)
Date:
11 Sep 1868
Source of text:
MSA 1 / 212, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Proposes a principle for the establishment of musical scales to satisfy musicians, not mathematicians, as JH had apparently done.
More on musical scales [see GA's 1868-4-3]; GA here proposes the use of hyperbolic logarithms to help establish the scales.
Further regarding his theories on sound.
Has received the bill of William Ewart concerning the metrical scale.
Is sending William Pole's protest against the system of equal temperament in music [abstract of protest given].
Stating that the Board of Visitors could not afford to lose the services of JH.
Further regarding the theory of sound.