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IN his letter in NATURE of November 5 on “Natural Melody” Sir Richard Paget inquires whether such an effect can have been produced in Nature, as, for example, by a broken bamboo stem. The following extract from Godinho de Eredia's “Report on the Golden Chersonese”: 1597–1600 (English translation by Mr. J. V. Mills of the Malayan Civil Service) may be of interest, though it concerns speech, not melody:
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SCRIVENOR, J. Natural Melody. Nature 130, 778 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130778a0
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