At 17:01 -0400 14/7/10, pnotnr at aol.com wrote: >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'm not sure one can even talk of "partials" in respect of a tuning fork. The fact that we get the octave as a function of the fundamental, though by a quite different phenomenon, does not mean we get any higher would-be partials. The overtones of the fork are unrelated by simple numbers to the fundamental. >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? No, and even if it did it would not be relevant. JD
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