Text: Beats arising from the Fundamental of one tone and an overtone of the other. As an example we may take the common dissonance between F and G1. This interval, when sounded between simple tones, is quite free from harshness; the tones are far beyond beating distance, and no differential is near enough to prooduce beats. When, however, it is sounded between ordinary compoundtones, beats are generated by the fundamental F and the 2nd partial of G1. The diagram only shows to the sixth partials. In reality the partials are generated in infinite numbers far beyond our ability to hear or measure them. This shows how Music may bridge the finite to the infinite.

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