That's how I was taught, too. I like the Zeroeth Harmonic name!
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And I had heard it wrong! I looked it up in an old booklet from Scientific
American called "The Physics of Music" which is a great little (110 pg.)
booklet by the way, made up of old articles from Scientific American about
the physics of....
On the first page of the first chapter ("Physics and Music" by Fredrick A.
Saunders from July 1948) it states, "The vibration with the lowest frequency
corresponding to the number 1, is called the fundamental; the sound with
double this frequency is called the first harmonic, and the higher harmonics
are calculated in like manner."
So I offer this solution: call the fundamental, the zeroth harmonic!
JB