inharmonic
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thumb|Inharmonic spectrum of a bell (dashed gray lines indicate harmonics). thumb|Harmonic spectrum. thumb|Comparing harmonic (top) and inharmonic (bottom) waveforms. 125px|thumb|Percussion bars, such as xylophone, are hung at ≈2/9 and ≈7/9 length, and struck at 1/2 length, to reduce inharmonicity.
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- anharmonicity
- facet of
- harmonic series
- does not have effect
- pitch
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- Inharmonicity
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- Pianos
- Sound quality of inharmonicity
- Inharmonicity leads to stretched tuning
- Guitar
- Mode-locking
- List of instruments
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|Inharmonic spectrum of a bell (dashed gray lines indicate harmonics). thumb|Harmonic spectrum. thumb|Comparing harmonic (top) and inharmonic (bottom) waveforms. 125px|thumb|Percussion bars, such as xylophone, are hung at ≈2/9 and ≈7/9 length, and struck at 1/2 length, to reduce inharmonicity.
In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency (harmonic series).
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