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  2. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    E ♭ bass trumpet: E ♭ 3: D bass trumpet: D 3: Bass trumpet B ♭ 2: Tuba: E ♭ tuba: E ♭ 2: When notated in treble clef B ♭ tuba B ♭ 1: When notated in treble clef Venova: Venova: C 5: Alto Venova: F 4: Violin: Treble violin C 5: Alto Violin: C 5: Octobass C 2: C 0: Viol: Double bass: C 3: Wagner Tuba: Tenor Wagner tuba B ♭ 3 ...

  3. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Seven clefs are used for this: treble (2nd line G-clef), bass (4th line F-clef), baritone (3rd line F-clef or 5th line C-clef, although in France and Belgium sight-reading exercises for this clef, as a preparation for clef transposition practice, are always printed with the 3rd line F-clef), and C-clefs on the four lowest lines; these allow any ...

  4. Clef - Wikipedia

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    In modern music, only four clefs are used regularly: treble clef, bass clef, alto clef, and tenor clef. Of these, the treble and bass clefs are by far the most common. The tenor clef is used for the upper register of several instruments that usually use bass clef (including cello, bassoon, and trombone), while the alto is most prominently used ...

  5. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    G clef (Treble clef) The spiral of a G clef (not a point on the spiral, but the center around which the spiral is drawn) shows where the G above middle C is located on the staff. A G clef with the spiral centered on the second line of the staff is called treble clef. [2] The treble clef is the most commonly encountered clef in modern notation ...

  6. Transposing instrument - Wikipedia

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    In order to avoid the use of excessive ledger lines, music for these instruments may be written one, or even two, octaves away from concert pitch, using treble or bass clef. These instruments are said to "transpose at the octave"—their music is not written in a different key from concert pitch instruments, but sound one or two octaves higher ...

  7. Euphonium - Wikipedia

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    Euphonium music may be notated in the bass clef as a non-transposing instrument or in the treble clef as a transposing instrument in B ♭. In British brass bands, it is typically treated as a treble-clef instrument, while in American band music, parts may be written in either treble clef or bass clef, or both.

  8. List of E-flat instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tuba in E-flat (written at concert pitch when using the bass clef, only transposing when written in treble clef) Circular altohorn (Koenig horn) pitched in E ♭ Tenor cornet; Mellophone; Alto trombone; Vocal horn (cornet with an upward-facing bell) Duplex horn (Gemelli) pitched in E ♭ Tenor horn (with a forward-facing bell)

  9. Bass saxophone - Wikipedia

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    Music for bass saxophone is written in treble clef, just as for the other saxophones, with the pitches sounding two octaves and a major second lower than written. As with most other members of the saxophone family, the lowest written note is the B ♭ below the staff—in the bass's case, sounding as a concert A ♭ 1.