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Queries that relate to overtones or harmonics as used in a musical context.

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In a musical note (A for an example) are all the other frequencies harmonic?

The low notes of a piano in particular are built from coils of wire, which will provide a slightly imperfect vibration (i.e. even ignoring harmonics you may not see a sinusoidal vibration because the force … Inevitably that means you are not going to get a harmonics which are constantly at frequencies integer multiples of a theoretical base note. …
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