Tuning shorthand

[DaveAAAP@AOL.COM]

  Newton, I think I understand the partial series.but you may have lost me on 
the following:

>Coincedental partials are the partials of approximately the same pitch
that occur when an interval of two notes is player.

  Are you meaning that coincidental partials are just the partials that are 
shared by two different strings?  It may be crude, but If so, I follow you up 
until this next point.
I only see that the notes you wrote in the following example are 5ths and 
would therefore as you stated below have coincidental partials.  Is there 
some sort of patter you are trying to relay?

Example:

F3  C4  Fifth
F4  C5 a           (What is a?)
C5 a    G5
F5  C6 b            (What is b?)
A5  E6
C6 b    G6
A6  A#6
C7  C7

There are two coincidental partials in the major fifth.  In tuning
aurally we must concern ourselves with the first set only.  These
pairs of partials are the ones producing the beats.

  I got that last part.

Dave Streit
Beaverton, OR