ABSTRACT
This, the first of Wallis’s three papers on musical subjects in the Philosophical Transactions for 1698, dealt with the placement of frets on a viol. By contrast with the two papers which followed it, we know nothing about the circumstances which prompted its composition. A comparison with Wallis’s earlier writings on the theory of tuning (Chapters 1, 3 above) shows considerable development in detail. As discussed in the Introduction, this text also displays certain novelties compared with Wallis’s sources. 1
