Note N. 181 — SECTION XVII.
Reading edition
Note 181, p. 142. Fig. 44 represents musical strings in vibration; the straight lines are the strings when at rest. The first figure of the four would give the fundamental note, as, for example, the low C. The second and third figures would give the first and second harmonics; that is, the octave and the 12th above C, n n n being the points at rest; the fourth figure shows the real motion when compounded of all three.