'Tones' in the Bible

When the assembly is to be gathered, you shall blow [the trumpets in short, sharp tones], but without sounding an alarm.

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?

and to Jesus the negotiator of a new Covenant, and to the sprinkled blood which speaks in more gracious tones than that of Abel.