Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Bi-equal third

Bi-equal third. A name given by Earl Stanhope, in his "Principles of the Science of Tuning," to intervals, two of which, added to a major third, make up an octave ; consequently two of them equal a minor sixth.

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