Too many overtones

[Moldstar]

Originally Posted by Bluemonk

Hmmm, I'm still not convinced (but open to being educated). A readout is one thing, but are you saying it would be an accurate statement to say, for example, that such and such a guitar has 93 overtones?

Yes, you could accurately say that. It's a vibrating string that creates a pitch (frequency), and that pitch can be accurately recorded, and that recorded sound can be accurately represented on a waveform graph. You can clearly see the overtone series of a given pitch in the waveform, the analyzer will display the frequency of each overtone in the graph, along with relative amplitude. It's science, man, it's not voodoo. All of the major guitar makers do this exact same thing when tone-tapping their tops (say that three times fast), breedlove literally has the top in a contraption, and they whack it, and mic picks it up and displays the waveform(s) of all the dominant pitches present in the top. They'll shave down the braces, or part of the top, then whack it again, and they keep doing that until the desired pitches appear on the screen.