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In music, timbre ( or ) also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics, is the quality of a musical note, sound, or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the perception of timbre include spectrum and envelope. In simple terms, timbre is what makes a particular musical sound different from another, even when they have the same pitch and loudness. For instance, it is the difference between a guitar and a piano playing the same note at the same loudness. Experienced musicians are able to distinguish between different instruments of the same type based on their varied timbres, even if those instruments are playing notes at the same pitch and loudness. ==Synonyms== ''Tone quality'' and ''color'' are synonyms for ''timbre'', as well as the "''texture'' attributed to a single instrument". Hermann von Helmholtz used the German ''Klangfarbe'' (''tone color''), and John Tyndall proposed an English translation, ''clangtint'', but both terms were disapproved of by Alexander Ellis, who also discredits ''register'' and ''color'' for their pre-existing English meanings . The sound of a musical instrument may be described with such words as ''bright'', ''dark'', ''warm'', ''harsh'', and other terms. There are also colors of noise, such as pink and white. In visual representations of sound, timbre corresponds to the shape of the image . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「timbre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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