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Also known as indefinite pitch

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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It is catalogued under topics including Acoustics and Musical tuning.

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different from
anharmonicity
does not have effect
pitch
Commons category
Inharmonicity
characteristic of
sound
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9 sections
Contents
  • 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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