harmonics vs. partials

Ron Newman ronman@imt.net
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:00:20 -0600


Hello all,
I dimly remember from school something about the term "partial" not being 
synomonous with the term "harmonic", i.e. the fundamental is harmonic 1, 
but partial 0, harmonic 2 is partial 1, etc.

Am I making this up?  Is the difference in meaning consistently adhered to 
in the documentation for electronic tuning devices?



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