...confirmed by me experimentally. The effect depends on the fact (which is itself a consequence of theory) that when the pressure with which the bow is applied...proportionate to the rate of dissipation of energy from the string, the principal mode of vibration of the latter, in which the fundamental is dominant, is incapable...

...published, and the conclusions I arrived at have since been confirmed by me experimentally. From the mechanical theory, it appears that when the pressure...one in which the octave is the predominant harmonic J. In the particular case in which the frequency of free oscillation of the string coincides very nearly...