Atlas
Musical Instrument Atlas
Profiles of 47 orchestral, band and folk instruments with written and sounding ranges, transposition, clefs, classification, history, recordings and museum examples.
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Woodwinds
Flutes, single reeds and double reeds — instruments whose sound comes from an air column set vibrating by an edge, a reed or a pair of reeds.
B♭ Clarinet
D3 – B♭6 sounding
A Clarinet
C♯3 – A6 sounding
E♭ Clarinet
G3 – C7 sounding
Alto Clarinet
G♭2 – B♭5 sounding
Basset Horn
F2 – C6 sounding
Bass Clarinet
B♭1 – F5 sounding
Contrabass Clarinet
B♭0 – D4 sounding
Flute
C4 – C7 sounding
Piccolo
D5 – C8 sounding
Alto Flute
G3 – G6 sounding
Bass Flute
C3 – C6 sounding
Soprano Recorder
C5 – D7 sounding
Alto Recorder
F4 – G6 sounding
Tin Whistle
D5 – D7 sounding
Oboe
B♭3 – A6 sounding
English Horn
E3 – C6 sounding
Oboe d'amore
G♯3 – C♯6 sounding
Bassoon
B♭1 – E5 sounding
Contrabassoon
B♭0 – B♭3 sounding
Soprano Saxophone
A♭3 – E6 sounding
Alto Saxophone
D♭3 – A5 sounding
Tenor Saxophone
A♭2 – E5 sounding
Baritone Saxophone
C2 – A4 sounding
Brass
Lip-reed instruments: the player's buzzing lips drive the air column, and valves or a slide change its length.
Bowed strings
The violin family and the double bass — strings excited by a bow, stopped on a fingerboard without frets.
Plucked & fretted
Guitars, lutes and harps — strings set in motion by fingers or a plectrum.
Keyboards
Instruments played from a keyboard: struck strings, plucked strings and more.
Pitched percussion
Bars, plates and drums tuned to definite pitches.
