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Harmonic Echoes
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Harmonic Echoes

  • JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY1 

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IT appears tolerably well established that harmonic echoes are selective echoes; that is to say, echoes which, from whatever cause, select and return one of the harmonies of the original without the fundamental.

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