A TONE having more than a single FREQUENCY component. For instance, a tone consisting of a FUNDAMENTAL and OVERTONEs or HARMONICs, may be said to be complex. Compare: SIMPLE TONE. However, usage of ...
In the practice of overtone singing called also biphonic ... with his vocal cords and in addition a highpitched melody using harmonics overtones selected by modifying the volume of the mouth ...
Most musical instruments produce tones whose partial tones, or overtones, are harmonic: their frequencies are whole-number multiples of a fundamental frequency. The piano is an exception ...