PITCH. This word, in its general sense, refers to the position of any sound in the musical scale of acuteness and gravity, this being determined by the corresponding vibration-number, i. e. the number of double vibrations per second which will produce that sound. Thus when we speak of one sound being ‘higher in pitch
’ than another, we mean that the vibrations producing the former are more rapid than those producing the latter, so giving what is recognised as a higher...
