Listen to recordings of different instruments playing alone or playing very prominently above a group. Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. For each instrument, what "color" words would you use to describe the timbre of each instrument?
Use as many words as you can that seem appropriate. Do any of the instruments actually make you think of specific shades of color, like fire-engine red or sky blue?
I lifted that section from an article I was reading and PAN was right in the MIDDLE OF THE MIX.
But ah having ah real hard time PICKING AH COLOR for PAN!!!
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