Sounds
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Note about stones which create echoes, 1867
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/50
Scope and Contents
Note about stones which create echoes which reads 'Two rocks in San[dray] [Sanndraigh] which ans[wer] to each other E[ast] S[outh] E[ast] end. Ciste na Clithe in Bar[ra] [Ciste na Cli'eann, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] Vaslan [Vaslain] (Fala = creag) An echo here.'
Dates:
1867
Sounds, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/15
Scope and Contents
Volume contains manuscript notes on the science of acoustics. Special topics include ear trumpets and the tuning of instruments. Two or three diagrams attend.
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Vocabulary note for noises, 24 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/139
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note for noises collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann which reads 'Chomhag = ghlagach = Rattling. Whirlwind noise in air a rush.'
Dates:
24 June 1887