(in the sense that you will know if you heard a piano or a guitar) what stayed the same and what changed with the sound wave? Second related question, if you get two people to say the word “hello” they will sound completely different but you will be able to hear that they both said hello. So in that case what changed with the sound wave and what stayed the same?
Sorry if it’s the wrong flair I put it as physics because sound waves so yeah
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Overtones! There’s so much more to the quality of sound – called the *timbre* (pronounced TAM-burr) than just the principle tone.
Instruments produce lots of different pitch (frequency) notes at once, mainly the [harmonic series](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)).
The relative strength of all these tones together is what gives sound its colour. Check out the image at the top of that wikipedia article
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