How does sound have “texture”? How does a piano sound different from a clarinet when they play the same tone?

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How does sound have “texture”? How does a piano sound different from a clarinet when they play the same tone?

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Answer 1

Texture can be described, very simply, as many layers of notes played at once. Bass has a line, tenor has a line, soprano and so on. A piano does this, but a clarinet cannot, because only one note can be played at a time.

Edit – not sure I was downvoted. Musical texture has three basic types: monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic.