Word: bassed
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First of all, will you think of all the different noises that come to your ears, from, the boom of the bass-viol to the peep of the piccolo, as if they were all nicely sorted out according to pitch in a broad band or spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind...
...partial to certain tones, while notes below middle C were inaudible except for their high overtones, the ear being surprisingly obliging in imagining the absent fundamentals. The newer phonographs and present-day talking pictures have a broad and even response spread, yet there are still inaudible bands at the bass and treble extremes. Wide-Range recording has considerably reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum. For example, the violins are little affected; but percussion instruments are considerably more realistic. The restoration of high overtones results...
...stock, is of course, the most important consideration. It would have to keep always to the delicate line between heartiness and vulgarity, inclining not too much to the spirituous side, nor overstressing the products of the barleycorn. First, beer on draught, and then some good English ale; Bass No. 1 would do admirably. Then stout, not in bottles, but in the wood, and a good variety of the other malt brews; hard cider, with some Perry that is not too strong; rum, whisky, gin, and a few of the cheaper wines...
...furniture is loaned and in splendid did fashion depicts the simpler Sheraton style of the eighteenth century. Constructed of mahogany, it is inlaid with maple and bass wood...
...rumbled his deep bass laugh at the point-blank query whether he might not even yet sell out to Japan. "I will resist the Japanese." said he when he had had his laugh "with all the troops nd resources at my command...