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 Articles - Timbre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Helmholtz used the German Klangfarbe (tone color), Tyndall proposed its English translation clangtint, and both terms were disapproved of by Alexander Ellis who also discredits register and color for their pre-existing English meanings (Erickson 1975, p.7).
However, many instruments produce inharmonic tones, and may contain overtones which are not whole number multiples, these being the partials.
Similarly the specific inharmonic timbre of Thai metallophones would produce the seven tone near equal temperament they do indeed employ, and the five note sometimes near equal tempered slendro scale provides the most consonance in the combination of the inharmonic spectra of Balinese metallophones with harmonic instruments such as the stringed rebab.
www.zforever.com /articles/Timbre   (1019 words)

  
 Wicks Organ Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This permits contrasting tonal colors from the various keyboards, allows stops to be used for solos with different stops for accompaniment (when playing on two keyboards), and permits quick changes in registration by shifting from one keyboard to another.
There are three aspects to the tone, which need to be correct and consistent from one pipe to the next in the same rank.
They are the attack, or the very first instant of speech; the tone quality, or color that distinguishes one kind of sound from another; and the volume, or strength of the tone, each judged strictly by ear.
organ.wicks.com /display_page?p=290&o=8   (4975 words)

  
 Claudio Abbado --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891 as the Chicago Orchestra, it operated as the Theodore Thomas Orchestra from 1905 to 1913, when it was named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
A quiet but dedicated practitioner, with a preference for richly flowing string lines and burnished tone color, he was especially known for his Germanic...
One of the most significant composers in the transition from the Renaissance to the baroque era, Claudio Monteverdi was both a pioneer and a preservationist.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003230   (695 words)

  
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