Question

in an orchestra violin and flute are played at the same time but they can be distinctly able.Name the characteristic that make it possible??????

Answer 1

Hey!

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Correct answer - Quality (Timbre)

Quality is the characteristic of sound which enables us to distinguish between the sounds produced by different persons or different musical instruments even if the sounds are of same amplitude or frequency or loudness or pitch.

Sounds which are pleasant to ear is said to be of rich Quality.

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Answer 2

Hi there!

You know... Musical instruments vibrate.

Different instruments use strings (piano, guitar, violin), reeds (clarinet, saxophone), and even just columns of air (flute, organ), but ultimately, they all vibrate, typically hundreds or even thousands of times per second.

As the instrument vibrates, it alternately compresses and expands the air around it, creating sound waves, like ripples in a pond that spread out around a dropped rock.

When the sound waves reach our ears, they make the eardrum vibrate, and various internal structures convert that vibration into nerve signals in our brains.

Our brains recognize various characteristics of sound, such as loudness and pitch.

Sounds may be soft as whispers or loud as jet planes ( Ahh! Can't hear jet planes ) Sounds are loudest next to the instrument that produces them, and get softer as the listener moves away.

That is because loudness is related to energy, and as the sound moves off in all directions around the instrument, the energy is dispersed over an ever increasing area.

If a clarinet and a piano play notes of the same pitch and loudness, the sounds will still be quite distinct.

This is because musical instruments do not vibrate at a single frequency: a given note involves vibrations at many different frequencies, often called harmonics, partials, or overtones.

The relative pitch and loudness of these overtones gives the note a characteristic sound we call the timbre of the instrument.

That's the reason behind why Orchestra, Violin & Flute when played at the same time produces different sounds. ( Applicable on other Musical intruments also :D )

[ Thank you! for asking the question. ]
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