If you play the exact same same note on two different musical instruments the sound will not be the exact same. What changed and what stayed the same?

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(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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Sound is built up of loads of little parts. Things that have the same musical note have a really big bit they all share, but all the little bits are different (some things may not even have the same ones). So you hear the same note but it sounds different because of all the little bits add up differently. Think of a guitar and piano, they vibrate the same note in different ways because of their shape/size. Same principle for voices.

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