Oops...got my own terminology messed up before thinking. 1st partial is fundamental...2nd partial is 1st OVERTONE. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Hoover" <tim@timhoover.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: Re: harmonics vs. partials > Close...the 1st partial is the fundamental, the 2nd partial is the 1st > harmonic...etc. > > Tim Hoover > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Newman" <ronman@imt.net> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:00 PM > Subject: harmonics vs. partials > > > > 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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