The Vibration of Strings
Jams Beamnt · 1997
Abstract Terms have these meanings until developed further in the text:Frequency: the rate of vibration; the number of repetitions or cycles in a second. The frequency of violin open A is 440 cycles per second.Pitch: the characteristic of musical sound which enables the hearer to refer it for a scale of pitches.A note: the complete played sound of the simplest unit of music as produced by an instrument, which consists of a starting transient at the beginning followed by a sustained sound of constant pitch and loudness.