exact integer ratios of harmonics found for winds, voices, and bowed strings

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "alternativetuning
<alternativetuning@y...>" <alternativetuning@y...> wrote:

> Did you ever test sounds from wind instruments, singing voices, or
> bowing strings? At the SpecMus list we are having some discussion
of
> whether or not the partial tones for these sounds are precise
integer
> multiples or not.
>
> Gabor Bernath

here's the article that fairly well settles the issue:

http://www.wellesley.edu/Physics/brown/pubs/freqRatV99P1210-P1218.djvu