I have a question relating the "timbre" of a sound, namely what is exactly and exhaustively defined by this word? Most definitions that I come across seem somewhat loose as "the color of the sound". So what I want to know is:

1. Is timbre physical or perceptual in nature? (Does a tree falling in the woods make a sound that has timbre?)

2. Is timbre a collection of ways in which we can excite the natural frequencies of an object? (For example: plucking, bowing, hammering, kicking and whichever other way we can make a different violin sound)

3. Does an object have a single timbre or multiple timbres?

I have a question relating the "timbre" of a sound, namely what is exactly and exhaustively defined by this word? Most definitions that I come across seem somewhat loose as "the color of the sound". So what I want to know is:

1. Is timbre physical or perceptual in nature? (Does a tree falling in the woods make a sound that has timbre?)

2. Is timbre a collection of ways in which we can excite the natural frequencies of an object? (For example: plucking, bowing, hammering, kicking and whichever other way we can make a different violin sound)

3. Does an object have a single timbre or multiple timbres?

4. Does an randomly evolving noise have timbre? (Is timbre applicable where there is no consistency and recognizability?)

I have a question relating the "timbre" of a sound, namely what is exactly and exhaustively defined by this word? Most definitions that I come across seem somewhat loose as "the color of the sound". So what I want to know is:

1. Is timbre physical or perceptual in nature? (Does a tree falling in the woods make a sound that has timbre?)
2. Is timbre a collection of ways in which we can excite the natural frequencies of an object? (For example: plucking, bowing, hammering, kicking and whichever other way we can make a different violin sound)
3. Does an object have a single timbre or multiple timbres?

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I have a question relating the "timbre" of a sound, namely what is exactly and exhaustively defined by this word? Most definitions that I come across seem somewhat loose as "the color of the sound". So what I want to know is:

1. Is timbre physical or perceptual in nature? (Does a tree falling in the woods make a sound that has timbre?)

2. Is timbre a collection of ways in which we can excite the natural frequencies of an object? (For example: plucking, bowing, hammering, kicking and whichever other way we can make a different violin sound)

3. Does an object have a single timbre or multiple timbres?