MOTM

That's how I was taught, too. I like the Zeroeth Harmonic name!


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	jwbarlow@... [mailto:jwbarlow@...] 
Sent:	Wednesday, 22 March, 2000 9:48 PM
To:	motm@onelist.com
Subject:	Re: [motm] Pushing Partials Around



And I had heard it wrong! I looked it up in an old booklet from Scientific 
American called "The Physics of Music" which is a great little (110 pg.) 
booklet by the way, made up of old articles from Scientific American about 
the physics of....

On the first page of the first chapter ("Physics and Music" by Fredrick A. 
Saunders from July 1948) it states, "The vibration with the lowest frequency

corresponding to the number 1, is called the fundamental; the sound with 
double this frequency is called the first harmonic, and the higher harmonics

are calculated in like manner."

So I offer this solution: call the fundamental, the zeroth harmonic!
JB