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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                          Class8
                                                     Lesson Notes
                                                   Subject-Physics
                                                       CH-Sound
                                       Subtopic-Characteristics of sound





                                            CHARACTERISTICS OF

                                                      SOUND







                                                                          QUALITY/ TIMBRE

                  Loudness refers                PITCH                   “quality" or "timbre"
                  to how loud or          The characteristic       describes those characteristics
                        soft                of sound that           of sound which allow the ear
                 a sound seems to             diffentiate            to distinguish sounds which

                     a listener              between two               have the same pitch and
                                                                                loudness
                                            soundwaves of

                                            same loudness
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