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Originally Posted by Russ C
Tone or timbre is the collection of harmonics above the fundamental vibration that we hear as the pitch of a note. There's other aspects to a note - extraneous sounds like pick noise, fret buzz, finger squeak that could be perceived as part of tone but the harmonics (produced mainly by the body of an instrument and then whatever initiated the vibration) that are tone .. imo.
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I would say it encompasses the fundamental pitch too. After all tone is a word use to describe the pitch of a note, so you can't leave that out of it.
I personally would say that tone refers (when talking about the tone of a guitar), to the overall sound it makes when you play a note or chord.