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History: What is the color of a sound?

  • Name: What is the color of a sound?
  • What is the color of a sound?

    • How loud or soft a sound is.
      This is amplitude.
    • What makes one sound source sound different from another.
      As close as one can describe it!
    • How high or low a sound is.
      This is pitch.
    • How amplitude is distributed over a set of frequencies, over time.
      Close, but this answer is a physical description, not perceptual.