Though the relationship of touch and sound is central to music performance, and audiotactile metaphors are pertinent to musical discourse, few empirical studies have investigated systematically how musical parameters such as pitch, loudness, and timbre and their interactions affect auditory-tactile metaphorical mappings. In this study, 40 participants (20 musically trained) rated the appropriateness of six dichotomous tactile metaphors (sharp-blunt, smooth-rough, soft-hard, light-heavy, warm-cold and wet-dry) to 20 sounds, varying in pitch, loudness, instrumental timbre (violin vs. flute) and vibrato. Results (repeated measures ANOVAs) suggest that tactile metaphors are strongly associated with all musical variables examined. Higher pitches and louder sounds were both rated as sharper, rougher, harder and colder than lower pitches and quieter sounds. Higher pitches, however, were lighter than lower pitches, while louder sounds were heavier than quieter sounds. Violin sounds were rated as rougher, harder, and drier than flute sounds. Vibrato sounds were rated as wetter and warmer than non-vibrato. We consider two complementary accounts for these findings: psychophysical analogies of tactile and auditory sensory processing, and experiential analogies, based on correlations between tactile and auditory qualities of sound sources in daily experience.