Originally Posted by musiclover
Apologies if this has been mentioned before in the thread, as I have just looked in for the first time.

I understand from reading on the net in the past regarding the Harmonics on a guitar, that the string vibrates in different sections along its length when plucked.

So my understanding is (could well be wrong that the Harmonics for a C note would be E and G)

So just wondering for anyone here who has gone into the very technical side of things, does that mean that when you pluck for example the C on the third fret of the fifth string on a guitar that the C is sounded, but in fact the E and G are played Harmonic wise as well but we don't really hear those Harmonic Overtones due to the loudness of the fundamental C note?

If the above is correct wouldn't that be a good way of understanding why the chord of C major with its C E and G sound so nice together?

Or am I totally wrong here?
A very interesting question, I don't think you are wrong and Levitin addresses some of this.

When you listen to a single note played on an instrument, you’re actually hearing many, many pitches at once, not a single pitch. Most of us are not aware of this consciously, although some people can train themselves to hear this. The one with the slowest vibration rate – the one lowest pitch – is referred to as the fundamental frequency, and others are collectively call overtones.

Surprisingly, these other frequencies are often mathematically related to each other in a very simple way: as integer multiples of one another. So if you pluck a string and its lowest fundamental frequency is 100 Hz, the other frequencies will be 2x100 (200 Hz), 3x100 (300 Hz), etc.

Where this might not happen is when you play a pure sinusoidal tone/note on a synth.

Overtone Series

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