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Experiments 
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coaching the 
^Sympathy or 
Antipathpal 
Sounds, one 
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feene ; And where any Colour (if ic were placed where the Body of the j 
Flame is) would not beeleene. I nidge that Sound is of this Latter Na- ! 
ture : For when two are placed on both inks of a Wall, andche Voice I 
is heard, Iiudgeit is not onely the Original/Sounds which pafieth in an 
Arched Line ; ButtheiVw;^, which pafieth aboue the Wall in a Right 
Line, begetteth the like Motion roundabout it, as the firft did, though 
moreweake. 
A L L Concords and Difcords of Muftcke , are, (no doubt) Sympathies 3 
and Antipathies of Sounds, And fo (likewife) in that Mt*fick*~> ) 
which wee call Broken Mnjicke 3 or Confers Muftcke - Some Ccn/orts of In¬ 
fir uments are Tweeter than others 5 (A Thing not fufficiently yctobfer- 
ued: j As the Irifh Harpe 3 and Safe Ft all agree well: The Recorder and 
Stringed Mujickeagrce well Organs and theVoice agree well ^ &c. But 
the Virgin&hand the Lute ; Or the WelSh-Harpe 3 and Irifh Harpe . Or 
the Voice and Pipes alone, agree not lo well • But lor the Melioration of 
Muficke , there is yet much left (in this Point of Exquifde Conforts) to try 
and enquire. 
There is a Common Obleruation, that if a Lute 3 otVtall i bee layed 
vpon the Backc, with a fmall Straw vpon one of the strings 5 And 
another Lute or Viall bee laid by it • And in the other Lute or Viall , 
the Vnifon to that String bee ftrucken j it will make the String moue - 
Which will appeare both to the Eye, and by the Straws falling off. 
The like will bee, if the Diapafon or Eight to that String bee ftrucken, 
either in the lame Lute or Viall , or in others lying by ; But in none 
of thefe there is any Report of Sound 3 that can bee difeerned, but onely 
Motion. 
It was deniled, that a Viall Ihould haue a Lay of Wire Strings be¬ 
low, as dole to the Belly, as a Lute 5 And then the Strings of Guts moun¬ 
ted vpon a Bridge, as in Ordinary Vtalls ; To the end, that by this meanes, 
thevpper Strings ftrucken, fhouldmake the lower refoundby Sympathy , 
and lo make the the better; Which, if it bee to purpole, then 
SjtnpJtbfw orketh, as well by Report of sound , as by Motion . But this 
deuice I concciue tobeofnovfe ; becaule the vpper Strings ; which arc . 
ftopped in great variety, cannot maintainea Dipsfon or Vnifon 3 with the 
Lower, which are neuer ftopped. But ifit fiiould bee of vie at all • it mtill 
be in Instruments which haue no S tops; as Virginails, and Harps ■ vviiefeii 1 
rriallmay bee made of two Rowes of Strings, diftant-. the one from the \ 
other. 
The Experiment of Sympathy may bee transferred (perhaps) from/;.'' 
firuments of Strings , to other Instruments of Sound. As to try if there I 
were in one Steeple, two 5 *///of Vnifon , whether the ftriking of the one 
would moue the other, more than ifit were another Accord : And fo 
in Pipes (iftjhey bee of equall Bore, and Sound) whether a little Straw 
or Fearh«: would moue in the on q Pipe y when the other is blowne at an 
Vnifon* 
