An experiment was conducted with the use of a "sonic viscometer" to demonstrate that a change in the constitutive nature of a fluid will alter the overtones that occur from the nonlinearity of the propagation of a sine wave through the fluid. Pure sine waves ranging octave-wise from 500 to 8000 Hz were introduced into distilled water, and FFT analyses of the signals received were compared with those resulting from transmission of the same set of sine waves through a 1% solution of polyethylene oxide in distilled water. Differences in the FFT spectra which occur as the result of introducing the polymeric solute indicate that the device could prove viable in indicating small changes in viscous properties.