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Instrument Ranges

The sounding ranges of orchestral strings, woodwind, brass and keyboard instruments, all plotted on one shared pitch ruler, as a wall chart.

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What's inside

  • Sounding ranges for strings, woodwind, brass & timpani, and keyboard, guitar & voices, all plotted on one shared C1–C8 ruler so overlaps are easy to see
  • A transposing instruments table — written versus sounding pitch, how to convert, and why each transposition exists
  • Four habits for writing playable parts: live in the middle of a range, let wind players breathe, check the clef, and score from the top down
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