[sdiy] Harmonic bandwidth

[Ian Fritz]

At 06:47 AM 1/6/2008, Paul Perry wrote:
>Well.. although passive, one can't assume linearity in an acoustic
>instrument.
>
>And, if you consider a stringed instrument(for example) reflected/resonated
>forces from the body interact in a complex way with the note generating
>slip/stick phenomena.

Agreed. But how would any of this produce the *extra* spread in the upper 
overtones?  I'm not saying it couldn't, but what would the mechanism be?

   Ian