Re: [Harp-L] Timbre, pitch, intonation/timbre?

["Splash" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Musicians are playing middle "C" on their instruments.

The trumpet sounds different than the viola, and the saxophone different
from the piano.  They are all playing the same "pitch" - middle C - but they
each have a different "timbre," and complexity of tone.  Their instruments
have individual characteristics, producing different overtones and
attack/sustain/decay.  We define these sounds as woody, or like a bell.  If
they are all using the same "intonation" of 256 beats per second they will
be "in tune," but a trained ear can easily distinguish between the "timbre"
of each separate instrument.

How's that?

PEACE
Scott
Believe in Magic!
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Timbre, pitch, intonation/timbre?


> Hey,
>
>   OK I want to learn. I know pitch, intonation, but somehow I do not know
> Exactly what timbre describes or is. Is it the attack or approach, so to
speak,
> onto the note?
>
>
>                                      Best,
>                                                ChristosM
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