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Musical term
known as inharmonicity. The less elastic the strings are (that is, the shorter, thicker, smaller tension or stiffer they are), the more inharmonicity they
Inharmonicity
Set of physical properties of the piano that affect its sound
'partials', can produce an unpleasant effect called inharmonicity. Basic strategies to reduce inharmonicity include decreasing the thickness of the string
Piano_acoustics
Sequence of frequencies
degree of inharmonicity. The piano, one of the most important instruments of western tradition, contains a certain degree of inharmonicity among the frequencies
Harmonic_series_(music)
Detail of tuning of musical instruments
however, neither of these assumptions is valid, and inharmonicity is the reason. Inharmonicity refers to the difference between the theoretical and actual
Stretched_tuning
Playing technique for string instruments
series as when a string is bowed. This complex timbre is called inharmonicity. The inharmonicity of a string depends on its physical characteristics, such as
Pizzicato
semitones is slightly larger, owing to string stiffness that causes inharmonicity, i.e., the tendency for the harmonic makeup of each note to run sharp
Piano_key_frequencies
Keyboard instrument
scales, have more inharmonicity. The greater the inharmonicity, the more the ear perceives it as harshness of tone. The inharmonicity of piano strings
Piano
Resonance phenomena in sound and musical devices
multiples of the fundamental frequency. Robert W. Young measured the inharmonicity of plain steel piano strings in situ in six pianos of different sizes
Acoustic_resonance
Sound synthesis technique
synthesis example A bell-like sound generated by additive synthesis of 21 inharmonic partials Problems playing this file? See media help. Additive synthesis
Additive_synthesis
Profession
reality, the frequencies of the overtones are shifted up slightly, due to inharmonicity caused by the stiffness of the strings. The relationship between two
Piano_tuning
Perceptual property in music ordering sounds from low to high
spectra or have altered harmonic spectra—a characteristic known as inharmonicity. It is still possible for two sounds of indefinite pitch to clearly
Pitch_(music)
Wave with frequency an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency
the fundamental are referred to as inharmonic partials. Some acoustic instruments emit a mix of harmonic and inharmonic partials but still produce an effect
Harmonic
Form of sound synthesis
frequencies that are non-integer multiples of the carrier signal (i.e. inharmonic), inharmonic bell-like and percussive spectra can be created. FM synthesis using
Frequency modulation synthesis
Frequency_modulation_synthesis
Percussion instrument played to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch
the more recent approach. Classification of percussion instruments Inharmonicity List of percussion instruments Percussion notation Pitched percussion
Unpitched percussion instrument
Unpitched_percussion_instrument
Quality of a musical note or sound or tone
instruments produce harmonic sounds, but many instruments produce partials and inharmonic tones, such as cymbals and other indefinite-pitched instruments. When
Timbre
Phenomenon in maths
growth. Other examples where Arnold tongues can be found include the inharmonicity of musical instruments, orbital resonance and tidal locking of orbiting
Arnold_tongue
Type of electronic audio manipulation
peaks and troughs of the signal waves), adding sustain and harmonic and inharmonic overtones, leading to a compressed sound that is often described as "warm"
Distortion_(music)
English polymath (1773–1829)
Fundamental frequency Frequency spectrum harmonic spectrum Harmonic Series Inharmonicity Missing fundamental Combination tone Mersenne's laws Overtone Resonance
Thomas_Young_(scientist)
Free-reed organ musical instrument
temperament tunings simultaneously, and observe the varying degrees of inharmonicity inherent in different temperaments. He subdivided the octave into 28
Pump_organ
Type of guitar with 8 strings
improves harmonic overtones, overtone series, and improves inharmonicity. (See also inharmonicity in pianos). The bass strings on an 8 string typically require
Eight-string_guitar
Tone with a frequency higher than the frequency of the reference tone
etymology below.) The model of Fourier analysis provides for the inclusion of inharmonic partials, which are partials whose frequencies are not whole-number ratios
Overtone
Deviation of a physical system from being a harmonic oscillator
and U ( x − ) = U ( x + ) = E {\displaystyle U(x_{-})=U(x_{+})=E} . Inharmonicity Harmonic oscillator Musical acoustics Nonlinear resonance Transmon Landau
Anharmonicity
Musical composition practice
Inharmonic spectrum of a bell (dashed gray lines indicate harmonic overtones)
Spectral_music
Lowest frequency of a periodic waveform, such as sound
that are not anywhere near a harmonic, and are just called partials or inharmonic overtones. The fundamental frequency is considered the first harmonic
Fundamental_frequency
Fretted string instrument
across the strings, improves harmonic overtones, overtone series, and inharmonicity[citation needed]. Notable guitar players of double-stringed nine-string
Nine-string_guitar
Percussion instrument
FFT "The bell produces a secondary pitch (f') which lies outside that 'inharmonic series though it is clearly audible when the bell is struck, 'to curiously
Bell
Type of atonal acoustic musical instrument
A waterphone (also ocean harp) is a type of inharmonic acoustic tuned idiophone consisting of a stainless steel resonator bowl or pan with a cylindrical
Waterphone
African musical instrument of the lamellophone family
the overtones of a plucked lamella are inharmonic, giving the mbira a characteristic sound. The inharmonic overtones are strongest in the attack and
Mbira
Categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds
of harmonic consonance as well, in their fabrics of 4-note chords. Inharmonicity Chord factor Dissonant counterpoint Limit (music) Phonaesthetics ..
Consonance_and_dissonance
Frequency mixing function in signal processing
oscillators' frequencies are not harmonically related, ring modulation creates inharmonics, often producing bell-like or otherwise metallic sounds. If the carrier
Ring_modulation
Ascending or descending sequence of musical tones
scales from Indonesia and the Indochina Peninsulae, which are based on inharmonic resonance of the dominant metalophone and xylophone instruments. Some
Scale_(music)
Acoustic phenomenon
perceive missing fundamental varies across individuals. Timpani produce inharmonic overtones, but are constructed and tuned to produce near-harmonic overtones
Missing_fundamental
Aspect of human sound production
through un-dampened but adds its own frequency as on overtone, harmonic or inharmonic as the case may be." Hardness carried to the extreme will result in a
Vocal_resonation
Indian pair of hand drums
modifying the drum's natural overtones, resulting in pitch clarity (see inharmonicity) and a variety of tonal possibilities unique to this instrument, which
Tabla
Ancient musical instrument
Acoustic analysis revealed that the instrument's resonance frequencies were inharmonic, with the closest modern approximation being a (harmonic) alto saxhorn
Carnyx
Topics referred to by the same term
University Harmony, the musical use of simultaneous pitches, or chords Inharmonicity, the degree of overtones' departure from integral multiples of the fundamental
Harmonic_(disambiguation)
roughness, spectral centroid, and spectral flux. While harmonicity and inharmonicity can also be considered NLDs, harshness differs from them, as well as
Harshness
Percussion instrument constructed by rods, bells, tubes suspended in air
and used to maximize the flow of chi, or life's energy. Chimes produce inharmonic (as opposed to harmonic) spectra, although if they are hung at about 2/9
Wind_chime
Synthesizer released in 2000
detuned sawtooth, triangle "wrap" progressively clips the waveform adding inharmonic content, and pulse wave has variable pulse width; PWM is also available
Oberheim_OB12
Experimental acoustical apparatus
Fundamental frequency Frequency spectrum harmonic spectrum Harmonic Series Inharmonicity Missing fundamental Combination tone Mersenne's laws Overtone Resonance
Kundt's_tube
Music that uses a tuning system outside of 12-TET
Tunings derived from the partials or overtones of physical objects with an inharmonic spectrum or overtone series such as rods, prongs, plates, discs, spheroids
Xenharmonic_music
Franco-Greek composer
material to another; a music involving a dialectic between harmonic and inharmonic, between periodicity and aperiodicity. To this compositional approach
Alexandros_Markeas
W.; Glasberg, Brian R. (May 1985). "Thresholds for the detection of inharmonicity in complex tones". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Brian_Moore_(scientist)
Model for the potential energy of a diatomic molecule
\left(n+1\right)\left(h\ \nu _{0}\right)^{2}\ }{2D_{e}}}~.} This trend matches the inharmonicity found in real molecules. However, this equation fails above some value
Morse_potential
Musical interval
derived in the harmonic series from the seventh harmonic, and as such is in inharmonic ratios with all notes in the regular 12 TET scale, with the exception
Septimal_minor_third
Electronic device that alters audio
creating warm sounds by adding harmonics or gritty sounds by adding inharmonic overtones. Distortion effects are sometimes called gain effects, as distorted
Effects_unit
Technique of using algorithms to create music
phenomena. These chaotic models create compositions from the harmonic and inharmonic phenomena of nature. For example, since the 1970s fractals have been studied
Algorithmic_composition
an orchestrally synthesized chord derived from a simulated bell sound (inharmonic) and a chord derived from a trombone sound (harmonic). This process is
Gondwana_(Murail)
1619 book by Johannes Kepler
Mars and Jupiter produce the one exception to this rule, creating the inharmonic ratio of 18:19. Chapter 5 includes a long digression on astrology. This
Harmonice_Mundi
Application of acoustics to music
that are not anywhere near a harmonic, and are just called partials or inharmonic overtones. The fundamental frequency is considered the first harmonic
Musical_acoustics
Terms in music theory to characterize scales
Occasionally, as in the Rollin excerpt shown in this section, spelt inharmonic; but in OED this is only given as a distinct word with a distinct etymology
Diatonic_and_chromatic
Electric bass guitar tone modification
are whole number multiples of the signal's original frequencies, or "inharmonic", meaning dissonant odd-order overtones. Harmonic distortion produces
Fuzz_bass
American classical composer (born 1934)
called Perspectives of the 20th Century. His composition was noted for its inharmonic sounds due to his famous FM algorithm and his use of the golden mean (1
John_Chowning
Model of auditory perception
sound, the chord is perceived as a compound. If the generative tone is inharmonic, like a bell-like sound, the interval structure is still recognizable
Auditory_scene_analysis
differentiating sound sources through pitch, timbral features, rhythmic features, inharmonicity, autocorrelation and other features based on the signal's predictability
Audio_mining
Beating (shimmer) produced by paired tuning in Balinese gamelan
in many Balinese settings. Balinese gamelan Gamelan Musical tuning Inharmonicity "Acoustics of the Balinese Gamelan". Brigham Young University, Department
Ombak
simulate sounds of dispersive sounding objects, or objects with strongly inharmonic resonant frequencies efficiently. It can be used to model the sound of
Banded_waveguide_synthesis
Scientific and musical study of bells
FFT. "The bell produces a secondary pitch (f') which lies outside that 'inharmonic series though it is clearly audible when the bell is struck, 'to curiously
Campanology
Method of sound synthesis
synthetic waves derived from additive synthesis, as well as sequences of inharmonic wave cycles. Thus, LA synthesis offered the realistic sounds of a sampler
Linear_arithmetic_synthesis
Digital/analog synthesizer
— Waveforms, which are single-cycle waves repeated over and over, and Inharmonic Loops, which are dynamic. multi-cycle waves. "Ensoniq SQ-80". Sound on
Ensoniq_SQ-80
Role of birdsong in Western music
European starling which use many buzzing or clicking noises that are inharmonic, working instead with birds with a strong pitch structure like the field
Birdsong_in_music
Stringed instrument playing technique
transition between the initial and final notes, the string may vibrate in an inharmonic manner for several cycles if it is plucked with the fretting finger, because
Pull-off
1986 album by Arthur Russell
commented that the cello "startlingly duets with his voice", leading to inharmonic sounds that makes it sound like the instrument "clears its throat during
World_of_Echo
American artist (1935–2013)
Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 September 2025. "The Waterphone, an inharmonic, otherworldly instrument". The Kid Should See This. Retrieved 26 September
Richard_Waters
Audio process
harmonics exceed the Nyquist limit, then they will be heard as harsh inharmonic content with a distinctly metallic sound in the output signal. Oversampling
Waveshaper
Igbo music style
structure seen as C, E, F, A, F, G. These notes create pitch-tones because of inharmonic partials. Although the relative tuning stays mostly steady, there might
Ogene
Sound from a percussion instrument
partials or harmonics are generated. "This atonal strike sound includes many inharmonic partials that die out quickly, giving way to a strike note or strike tone
Strike_tone
"Bridge agraffes, an alternative to traditional bridge pins", 2006 Inharmonicity in Grand Pianos, by Saratoga Pianos A unique shop in California, built
Innovations_in_the_piano
Real-time changes of tuning and timbre
traditional tuning of the traditional Thai ranat ek, in which the ranat's inharmonic timbre is maximally consonant. Other non-Western musical cultures are
Dynamic_tonality
Musical composition created by Jonathan Harvey
serial processes to electronic music" "as a 'prolongation' of the initial inharmonic series" "'as different perspectives on an object that is always present'"
Mortuos_Plango,_Vivos_Voco
Indeterminacy (music) Indian Classical Music Industrial music Inganno Inharmonicity In scale Insects in music Insen scale Instrumental idiom Instrumentation
Index_of_music_articles
Guitar where the bridge extends beyond its usual stop
harmonic positions the result is much louder and clearer than on the inharmonic fret positions. The 5th, 7th, 12th, and 19th frets generate low-frequency
3rd_bridge
Unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound
sound, and particularly what is meant by cacophony Aesthetics of music Inharmonicity, one of the factors causing a sound to be perceived as unpitched Consonance
Noise_in_music
Trinidad and Tobago musician
1956, Bertie Marshall changed the method of steelpan tuning from the inharmonic style. He tuned notes by octaves to produce harmonics. This harmonic tuning
Bertie_Marshall
the note, which is in turn subdivided into note, harmonic spectrum and inharmonic spectrum. Smalley also designates different morphological archetypes:
Spectromorphology
Composition for piano by Luciano Berio
containing a large number of seconds and fourths, giving them a more "inharmonic" character. These chords are progressively horizontalised, creating "a
Sequenza_IV
Analogue effects pedals
soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2019-10-24. Ruiz, Michael J.; Hobbs, Lowell (2018). "Inharmonic Spectra with a Rock Guitar Effects Pedal". The Physics Teacher. 56 (8):
Moogerfooger
Musical interval which is not a perfect harmonic
the timbre of the note that the string actually produces has slightly inharmonic overtones. In detailed discussions of pitch and tuning the actual overtones
Pseudo-octave
Travels, Scholes's ed. Inharmonical Relation in Music - 2 lines Burney. Cross-referenced to Relation Inharmonical Inharmonical - 3 lines Burney. Inharmoneous
List of general music articles in Rees's Cyclopaedia
List_of_general_music_articles_in_Rees's_Cyclopaedia
Sound frequency changes responsible for perceptions of loudness, pitch and timbre
between a harmonic complex tone and its frequency-transposed (and thus, inharmonic) version. Binaural pitch: these tests evaluate the ability to detect and
Temporal envelope and fine structure
Temporal_envelope_and_fine_structure
American writer (born 1932)
Sunday Inharmonic An illustrated reading of Wallace Stevens's “Sunday Morning” by Russell Oberlin and a slide choreography of Hubert Howe’s INHARMONIC FANTASY
Nancy_Bogen
American record producer (1920–1996)
individual tracks on the record are labelled "Warm-Up, Canon, and Peace, For Inharmonic Side-Band", "Reflection of a String, For Contraformer", "Drops, For Programmer
John Pfeiffer (music producer)
John_Pfeiffer_(music_producer)
Australian audio engineer (1949-2011)
the limitations of early digital audio, "weaknesses" such as noise and inharmonic distortion. During an April 1985 Springsteen tour leg in Japan, Jackson
Bruce Jackson (sound engineer)
Bruce_Jackson_(sound_engineer)
Set of electronic sound synthesis techniques
similar to FM voice synthesis. DSF allows the synthesis of harmonic and inharmonic, band-limited or unlimited spectra, and can be controlled by an index
Distortion_synthesis
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Best of all
Surname or Lastname
English
English : status name for someone who farmed a hide of land (see Hyde).
Girl/Female
Latin American
From Adria, the Adriatic sea region. Also means dark.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Delight Moon, Full of Honey
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu, Traditional
Lustrous
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Wolcott.
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Heaped sand
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Muslim
One who has large beautiful eyes
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Russian
(Яков) Russian form of Greek Iakob, YAKOV means "supplanter."
Boy/Male
English American Dutch Italian Latin
noble.
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