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IN the course of my researches on musical pitch, with the view of discovering the source of the discrepancy between Appunn's and Lissajous's measurement of the French diapason normal, I have had the good fortune to enter into correspondence with M. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, the celebrated Parisian organ-builder, and in his long and obliging answers to my inquiries he has communicated some facts which I have thought it important, with his permission, to lay before the readers of NATURE, as far as possible in his own language.
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ELLIS, A. Mons. A. Cavaillé-Coll on Musical Pitch, the French Diapason Normal, Scheibler's Tuning-Forks, &c. Nature 18, 381–383 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018381b0
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