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Need help understanding the Harmonic Series

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-08-17 03:54

Apparently the harmonic series is strong with the Legere reeds. When there is a tendency for them to "whistle" or "squeak," it is usually the fourth line "D" or fourth line "D#."

If the "D" squeaks, it is an octave and a second above ("E" third ledger above the staff). If the "D#" squeals, it is also an octave plus a second or the "F" three ledger lines above the staff.

According to a chart of the harmonic series that would make these notes the "eighth harmonic." Now if we think of the "G" that is below the second ledger below the staff as a fundamental of the "D" that we get adding the register, does that make this interval the second harmonic? If so, why am I experiencing the next harmonic to be the "eighth?" Or am I not getting this at all?

........HELP,

...................Paul Aviles

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