Reply by December 19, 20082008-12-19
I hope I'm not making a Usenet faux pas by responding to this in two
groups, but I should have put the earlier post in both, as I had done
with the original post.  If so, sorry.

Original:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.midi/browse_thread/thread/eb7278b9663b89de?q=%22WAV+to+MIDI+algorithm%22#2bf93cd8cbea2022 > in comp.dsp
6 years later response: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.midi/browse_thread/thread/db35de155edc489
> So how about harmonics? > How can you tell a octave fifth 'chord' from (very strong) 2nd and 3rd > harmonics?
All I remember about that is that if a harmonic is so loud that you can actually hear it as a note, it would show up as a note...depending on the threshold that you set. I suppose if one had a fast enough computer, they could analyze the strings to determine the manner in which octave strings are oscillating between their natural resonant state and harmonic states to come to various conclusions.
> I'm interested.
I am packaging the code now...just send me an e-mail and I'll respond with a download location.