How does sound have “texture”? How does a piano sound different from a clarinet when they play the same tone?
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The difference you are describing is called [Timbre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre).
There are a lot of other components of a sound beyond just its pitch and volume – how fast and sharply the wave begins (attack), how long it lasts (sustain), and how quickly it ends (decay), how much noise is in the signal, how many overlapping sound waves (harmonics) there are and where they fall in and out of phase with one another are just some of the things that go into giving a sound it’s particular tonal uniqueness.
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