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When you listen to a flute or a clarinet you know which


        instrument is playing as they have very different timbres.







                                                            Trumpet

















                                                          Clarinet











        How do you distinguish between your mother speaking

        and your father speaking – the timbre.







                       Definition: the fundamental frequency is the


                                       same as the first harmonic.





















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