They would be for a perfectly thin flexible string - but string stiffness sharpens the higher harmonics. Bill Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
-----Original Message----- From: David van Ooijen <davidvanooi...@gmail.com> Sender: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:55:50 To: Lutelist List<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Tuning On 25 June 2012 09:39, andy butler <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Harmonics on a plucked string are a little bit sharp, Isn't it the case that harmonics are pure by definition? David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html