The tone color refers to the sound quality heard within the music. Since the gayageum is a plucked instrument, consisting of 12 to 25 strings, the nasal-like sounds emitted from the instrument differs from the piano noises when the hammer strikes upon the strings inside it. It is also possible to vibrato extravagantly on the gayageum, while it is not possible on a piano.
However, there was one performance* where the plucking was so gentle that the sounds played from the gayageum sounded more like a piano than Se-Na’s instrument. Later, however, it began to sound like a harp. The woman who had played “Snowflake” used a 12-string gayageum, unlike Se-Na’s; thus, I think the more strings on a gayageum, the less of a softer tone color and more nasally it may sound.
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6uc0um8k8
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