4 Metaphors for pitch

The timbre, loudness, pitch, of musical tones, is a concern of science; but for this a Beethoven symphony is no better than the latest ragtime air from the music halls.

Q.What do you mean by the pitch of the screw? A.A screw propeller may be supposed to be a short piece cut off a screw of large diameter like a spiral stair, and the pitch of a spiral stair is the vertical height from any given step to the step immediately overhead.

The pitch is 4.72 inches.

For in the voice he recognized the quality of the girlthe same softness, the same velvety richness, though the pitch was a bass.

4 Metaphors for  pitch