Discusses the issue [then under debate] of a fixed musical pitch, urging that C be fixed at 512 vibrations per second and explaining in detail his reasons.
Letter details
Record number
Herschel8924
From
Sir John Herschel
To
William Whewell, Chair, Musical Pitch Committee of the Society of Arts
Date
[14 June 1859]
Sent from
Collingwood
Source of text
Journal of the Society of Arts, 7 (July 8, 1859), 581 & Athenaeum, #1654 (July
Physical description
L
Additional information
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by
Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by
Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by
Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library