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- But if you play the same note on a clarinet, French horn or trumpet you will hear a different note. Clarinets, horns, trumpets and a few other instruments are “transposing” instruments, which means that the note the player reads is different from the note which their instrument produces.
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A transposing instrument is one that sounds a different pitch than the note written. For some instruments, the note they see in the music isn't the note that is heard. For example, if I was playing my French horn and saw a "C" in the music, the pitch that would come out of the instrument would be an "F."
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano).
Transposing instruments are instruments for which the convention is to write music notation transposed relative to concert pitch. A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C).
Instrument FamilyInstrument NameThe Note C 4 Written Down Produces:D ♭ piano accordionD ♭4C 2C 2 /C 3Bagpipevariable D ♭4 - D 4So what are transposing instruments? How do I write for them? You may have noticed that some instruments are described not just by their name - trumpet, horn, clarinet - but also by a key i.e. trumpet in Bb, horn in F, clarinet in Bb.
An instrument where the note written differs from the note sounding is called a transposing instrument. So, if you read a “C” and play a “C” on a B Flat Clarinet the note that sounds is a B flat and not a “C” – confused?
A transposing instrument is an instrument for which the written music notes sound differently from the notes heard. The rule to remember. When an instrument in [XXX] plays a C then we hear a [XXX] in concert pitch. Examples: - When a clarinet in B♭ plays a DO then we hear a B♭ in concert pitch.
Most transposing instrument will include the transposition in their name (e.g., horn in E-flat). However, occasionally you will see a transposing instrument that does not give you the transposition in its name.
