Tone quality
- This article describes the term Tone quality in the music and the acoustics. To another meaning in that verbal Communication, see the article Attraction word.
Those Tone quality or that Timbre one Clay/tone in the music certainly through to be , Overtones, etc.., as well as the course of the spectrum and that .
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Spectrum
and Overtones determine with many musical instruments the tone quality. The overtones are integral multiple that can be used as musical tone quality (wind-howl). With many musical sounds are in addition also intoxication portions coining/shaping for the tone quality (z.B. Blowing on noises with wind instruments and organ pipes).
Transient behavior
Crucially for the tone quality however the transient behavior, i.e. the temporal process of the spectrum and the volume are in the first fractions of a second of a clay/tone. If one fades out these first tenth ofs a second, some instruments can be identified only with difficulty.
Formanten
Substantially for the character of a music instrument are also those . The situation of the Formanten determines the meaning of the vowel (A, e, i, o, u, see also:Vowel triangle).
Play technology
Apart from the condition of the clay/tone producer (z. B. Instrument, Singstimme) determines also the kind of the suggestion (Stimulierung)(Spieltechnik) the tone quality of an instrument.
Hear
The tone quality (the existing frequency portions and their temporal behavior are called) makes it possible that we on different instruments brought out tones, in addition, on the same instrument differently brought out tones hear-moderately to differentiate can.
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