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  2. Bass clarinet - Wikipedia

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    A short sample of the sound of the bass clarinet Four modern short bass clarinets, from left to right Leblanc L400, Signet Selmer 1430P, E. M. Winston, Leblanc 330S Two short bass clarinets, on the right side made from boxwood. The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.

  3. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    The note C 4 written down produces: Comment Accordion: D ♭ piano accordion D ♭ 4: Bass accordion: C 2: Arpeggione: C 2 /C 3: Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: 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).

  4. Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    The orchestra is divided into four groups (five if a keyboard instrument is used) and specified as follows: [1] Woodwind instruments: flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones (if one or more are needed), bassoons; Brass instruments: horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas; Percussion: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, chimes, etc.

  5. Contrabassoon - Wikipedia

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    The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.

  6. Clarinet family - Wikipedia

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    The clarinet family is a woodwind instrument family of various sizes and types of clarinets, including the common soprano clarinet in B♭ and A, bass clarinet, and sopranino E♭ clarinet. Clarinets that aren't the standard B♭ or A clarinets are sometimes known as harmony clarinets.

  7. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

  8. Contra-alto clarinet - Wikipedia

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    The contra-alto clarinet [2] is largely a development of the 2nd half of the 20th century, although there were some precursors in the 19th century: . In 1829, Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Streitwolf [], an instrument maker in Göttingen, introduced an instrument tuned in F in the shape and fingering of a basset horn, which could be called a contrabasset horn because it played an octave lower than it.

  9. Woodwind section - Wikipedia

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    For example, Mahler in his Symphony No. 8 (1910) employs 2 piccolos, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, cor anglais, 2 E-flat clarinets, 3 B-flat clarinets, bass clarinet, 4 bassoons, and contrabassoon. [1] After World War I , the number of instruments was often reduced, approaching the size of a chamber orchestra , with individual instrument combinations ...

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