I had always thought the difference between a harmonic and a partial was simply that the term "harmonic" implies a pure mathematical relationship (i.e. the 2nd harmonic of 440 is 880.0) where a partial is harmonic-like but not mathematically pure (i.e. the 2nd partial of 440 is +/- 881). dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 7/23/01 at 12:35 PM Tim Hoover wrote: >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? >> David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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