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Not as I understand it. A harmonic is an integer multiple of the original frequency. An octave is a power of two. So the second and fourth harmonics are octaves. The third is not, though still on a normal western musical scale. The fifth is not even on the musical scale. The 12 note "well tempered" scale was and remains a fix to try to put some kind of order into all of this.



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