The same notes being played on sitar and veena differ in

If the same note is being played on two different musical instruments, our ears can distinguish between the two sounds.

Two musical notes of the same pitch and same loudness are played on two different instruments. Their wave patterns are shown in Fig. Explain why are the wave patterns different.

"The strings used in a sitar are of different thickness and different materials." Why?

Give Scientific reasons: The sounds generated by a tabla and sitar are different.

Assertion (A): The musical notes produced by two musical instruments, like guitar and sitar are different even if the length and the thickness of the strings in both instruments are the same. Reason (R) : The difference in two sounds of equal pitch and loudness can be distinguished by a characteristic property called quality of sound ro timbre.