Every feeling of loneliness, every emotion of melancholy has its own distinctive characteristics, its own special quality, its own particular tone, tenor, timbre, shade, or hue.

每一种孤独感，每一种忧郁情绪，都有自身鲜明的特征，都有自己特殊的品质，有其特别的语调、音色、明暗或色调。

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Human auditory perceive not only includes the level, tone and timbre of sound, but also the sound location, which is called the spatial hearing ability.

在人的听觉感受中，除了声强、音调和音色外，还包括对声音空间特性的感觉，这就是人耳的空间听觉能力。

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The result shows that, in the bass and median tone of piano, the timbre will be improved if the 7th and 9th harmonics are attenuated for either single-key, third harmony, fifth harmony or triad chord.

实验结果表明，在钢琴的中低音区，不论是单键发音，还是三度和声、五度和声或三度和弦，令第七、第九次谐波的幅度衰减，均能使钢琴声音的音质有所改善。

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Variations in timbre, or tone quality, have also dipped since the 1960s, which the team attributes to the experimentation of shredders from that era.

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This is a fantastically challenging piece, requiring not only a constant sharp focus on the technical demands, but also a refined flexibility of tone and timbre.

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By the way, The study done by Mehrabian in 1979 on communication channels indicates that in face-to-face conversation, 55% of meaning is communicated via NVC, 7% via the verbal language (words) and 38% via the paralinguistics (Tone, timbre, speed of speaking, etc) and ALL THREE areas have to be taken into consideration when assessing communication.

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