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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