voicing

1. The act, practice, or production of one that voices.
2. Music. Tonal quality or blend of an instrument in an ensemble, especially a jazz ensemble, or of the ensemble as a whole.
3. Linguistics. The vibration of the vocal cords during the production of speech or a speech sound.

noun

The use of the speech organs to produce sounds: articulation, enunciation, utterance, vocalism, vocalization. See sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence, words.

The means by which the timbre, attack, loudness etc of the pipes or strings of keyboard instruments and some non-keyboard wind instruments are given their desired quality and uniformity. In the organ, voicing concerns the amount of wind issuing from a flue or the thickness and curvature of the reed tongue. In harpsichords and other quilled instruments, voicing involves adjusting the quill to arrive at an even touch and tone. The voicing of pianos involves altering the hardness of the subsurface felt of the hammers.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: the act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color

Voicing may refer to:

• Voice (phonetics), a characteristic of speech sounds
• Voicing (music), a representation of a chord
• Voice acting
• In the construction of musical instruments, the process of manipulating the mechanics of an individual note in order to change or refine the timbre or volume of that note.

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