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https://create.routenote.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/What-Does-Timbre-Mean-Mixxed-Blog.jpg22401260Timbre, pronounced tamber, is the tonal quality of a note/sound. A piano and a saxophone produce sounds with very different timbres and characteristics due to the different builds that pianos and saxophones have. These two instruments can both play the same note at the same volume and pitch… but the notes will sound entirely different! We are able to best compare different timbres when we look at families of instruments. Saxophones (brass) and pianos (keys) and violins (strings) all have different timbres to one another, and they also have different timbres when compared to the human voice. Even inside every...