217. 
touching the 
Medium of 
‘Sounds. 
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219», 
229.. 
Experiments 
in Confort, 
what the Ft- 
gures of tbe 
Pipes or Con- 
cavesy orthe 
Bodies diffee 
rent, conduce 
's0 the Sounds. 
222. 
Experiments 
in Confort, - 
| may be)that will fomewhat dead the Sound. 
‘| difturbance, the noifethatthe Flamcit felt maketh. x 
‘Sound pafleth: As Straight, Crooked p Angular, Circular, Gre. oth 
tally, the ftraight Line hath the cleanelt and roundett Sound, and the sro 00) 
the more Hoarfe, and Jarring- 
buuite Likewife ofa Pipe meds Hs AS Eat pins ai hie midis and f 
Gand pl IR poh. 
- a Ve sa 
ja amis —“Kand Bil, 
. Tee ‘worthy the inquiry, whether great Sounds ( as of.  Ordnance-ot 1 
Bells) become not more Weak and Exile, when they. pafs chorow fax all | 
‘Cranies.. For the Subtilties: of: Articulate Sounds, (it may. be). may pals 7 
thorow {mall Cranies, not confufed bp the magnitude of the cenenteny 
ha? not. fo well. PAS ) 4rnoda 
Tooele tae 
He ¢ Mediums Fs ae are es foft and porous Bade alfo Water, | 
andhard Bodies refufe not altogether to be Mediums of Soinidte’ Bus. all 
‘Ot them arc dull and unapt differents, tS CAPE the Air. aha j 
255 yd Jewe 
[n_ “Air, théthinner or drier Air, carricth rc Sontid Sorektla lasithe | 
more dente 5 ; as appeareth in Night: Sounds, and Evening Sounds; and} 
‘Sounds in moift Weather, and Southern Winds. The reafon is. already’ | 
‘mentioned in the Title of c%ajoration of Sounds; being, for thar thim Air isch 
better pierced, but thick Air preferveth the Sauna better from watte: Let | 
further Tryal be made by hollowing in Mifts, and gentle Showers 3. fongit 
1 we 
‘How far forth Flame may be a Medium of Sounds, (elpaneale of feck 1 
Sounds as are created. by Air, and not berwixt hard Bodies) let it be’ trisd | 
in fpcaking, wherea Bonefire is between; bur thenyou mu allow for fome f. 
Whether any other Liquors being made (4ediums, cauta diverfi ity, of | 
Sound from Water, it may be tryed: As by the knapping of the Tongs, er} 
ftriking the bottom of a Veffel filled either with Milk or with Oyls} 
which though they be more light, yet are they more unequal Bodies than p 
Ait. 
of the Natures of the Mediums, we have z a0 fpoken; as far the Difpot,| 
tion of the faidMediums,, it doth confit in the Penning, or not Penning \ 
of the Aix ; of which, we have fpoken before in the Title of Delation of } 
Sounds. % confifteth alfo inthe Figure of the Concave, sheers wbiolne 
is paffeth. Of which, we will (peak mex. 
He. the Figures of Pipes ox Concaves, through eagle Sorts, pals , » of off 
other Bodies different ; conduce to the variety and alteration of the } 
Sounds, either in re{pect of the greater quantity, or lefs quantity of Air, | | 
which the Concaves receive ; -or in refpedt of the carrying of Soundslomger |) 
or fhorter way 5 Or in re(pedt of many other Circum@ances, they havebeen: | 
touched, as falling into other Titles. But thofe figures which we now are | 
to fpeak Of, We intend to be, as they concern the Lines, through whieh | 
| 
The Figure of a Bell partaketh of the Pyramie, but yet copaing off, and | 
dilating more fuddenly. The Figare of a Eunsers Edorn, and Cornet,is oblick, y 
they have likewife ftraight Horns; which if they be of rhe fame bore. itt 
the oblick, differ little in Sound, fave that the ftraight require fomewhat a 
ftronger blaft, The Figare of Recorders, and Flutes, and Pipes, are Sent 
but the Recorder hath a le(s bore, anda greater, above andbelow. The 7 ramper 
hath the Figare of the Lester S. which maketh that Purling Sound, &e. Gene-4 
Of 4 Sinuous Pipe that may oe fome fout Flexions, eeyal: wonld 
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