Finding an instrument's fingerprint

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Lecture 2a's seven recordings of middle C, each modelled as 15 harmonics of a fundamental f0. For any f0 the page makes a least-squares fit of the amplitudes, and plots the error against each kind of parameter. It has sound: use the play buttons.

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