timbre (bre as ber) (4), tymbre

[French, from Lat. tympanum =a drum.] [TIMBREL.] Music: IMG:content-1137.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The quality of tone distinguishing voices, instruments, and stops, irrespective of pitch or intensity. All the notes of a given stop of an organ have of nece ity the same timbre, but in pitch they range throughout the extent of the chromatic scale. Corresponding notes of stops pitched in unison, such as the open diapason, dulciana, trumpet, ba oon, cremona, vox human a, have the same pitch, but each differs from the others in timber-trade, s. Commerce in timber. timber-tree, subst . A tree yielding wood fit for timbre; the quality of the tone is different. This building purposes.