I wondered that too, and at the risk of showing how much I don't know about this stuff, I ask the following: (and I understand that we are talking about a fork and not a string) But supposing the fork has a fundamental frequency of 100 bps, the octave (second partial) would be 200 bps. An octave above that (4th partial) would be 400 bps, and an octave above that (8th partial) would be 800 bps. I don't have a frequency chart in front of me, but figuring 6 1/4 times the fundamental (or 625 bps) would that correspond to the 6th partial? Gordon Large, RPT Maine -----Original Message----- From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 3:40 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Tuning fork puzzle >Now I am told that the first overtone of a tuning fork has about 6 >1/4 times the frequency of the fundamental, so where is this octave >coming from? Beg pardon? Do you mean 6 1/4 times the volume of the fundamental? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100714/af2a3e59/attachment-0001.htm>
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