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28 HOPI SONGS
made at least in the most important respects and for the most important purposes indistinguishable among themselves and from their original.
In testing this assumption, the main question to settle is
![]() What little acquaintance I had with the phonograph before learning of Dr. Fewkes's collection of records sufficed to make their study seem to me well worth while. These records had, it is true, been taken on a phonograph run by a treadle, but the experiments detailed in the " Zuiii Melodies " went to show that such records when reproduced by the electric motor and storage battery would only very seldom be noticeably at fault. For the latter motor used both in record and reproduction, the experiments indicated that the error would never be as great as the eighth of a tone. Later, in studying by the phonograph the Chinese performances before mentioned, I made another effort to determine by ear the amount of the distortion to which a sequence of intervals might be expected to be subjected by the phonograph used with a |
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