A Simple Device for Demonstrating the Tempered Scale

Authors

L. B. Spinney, Iowa State CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

The diatomic scale consisting of a succession of eight tones and containing three intervals known as ''major second intervals,” two known as ''minor second intervals'' and two "half-tones," is not adapted to musical instruments of "fixed pitch'' (e.g. the piano, harp, etc.) for the reason that it does not without a multiplicity of keys (strings) allow of transposition or change of keys.

Publication Date

1915

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

22

Issue

1

First Page

327

Last Page

328

Copyright

©1915 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Spinney, L. B. (1915) "A Simple Device for Demonstrating the Tempered Scale," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 22(1), 327-328.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol22/iss1/45