Inharmonicity in strings

[Richard Moody]

Hi Jim, 
	I have always wondered about the series of harmonics above the primary
ones.  I don't even know how to refer to them.  The interval the fourth
with its 4:3 ratio, should have partials with a 8:6 ratio, and why not a
16:12 ratio as well? 
The point is the 8:6 should beat twice as fast as the 4:3, so at the place
in the scale where the fourth beats one per second, on paper we have the
8:6 beating at two per second. I don't hear these.  Do the coincident
beats 
reinforce each other and the peak geometry obscure the feebler more
frequent beats? 

You mention the 8:6 ratio can be heard in ghost tone fashion.  I am
not familiar with this term or concept.  Could you explain it further? 

Richard Moody.

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> From: Jim Coleman, Sr. <pianotoo@IMAP2.ASU.EDU>
> To: Richard Moody <remoody@easnet.net>
> Cc: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Inharmonicity in strings
> Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 12:13 AM
> 
> Hi Richard:
> 
snip
 the 8:6 relationship. It is there and can be heard. It is very
> easily measured. My D3-G3 measures 2.1 cents wide at that coincidence.
> It is easily heard in ghost tone fashion.
> 
> Jim Coleman, Sr.