Timbral words shift meaning between different users

Evidence

Timbral descriptions also have their place in musician/sound engineer communication, but this is not a trivial task, since many of the words employed have different meanings depending on who is using them. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1510

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• QUESTION: What specific timbral descriptors are most ambiguous between musicians and engineers? Worth chasing.

Related

• Timbral words mean different things to different speakers (similarity 0.94)
• Timbral terminology is ambiguous across different users (similarity 0.89)
• Engineers must speak pitch, not frequency, to communicate with musicians (similarity 0.81)
• The English word timbre derives from a contested translation of German klangfarbe. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Timbral words mean different things to different speakers #corroborates (0.98) — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1543