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music-glossary: concert pitch

 
 1.65 concert pitch
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 ES: en Do, tono de concierto, I: intonazione reale, F: tonalité de
 concert, en ut, D: Kammerton, NL: ?, DK: ?, S: ?, FI: konserttikorkeus.
 
    The pitch at which the piano and other nontransposing instruments
 play: such instruments are said to be ‘in C’.  The following list
 includes some (but not all) instruments that play in concert pitch:
 
 Woodwinds Strings
           
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    •      
      flute   • violin
    •         • viola
      oboe    • 
    •           violoncello
      bassoon
 
    Instruments that play ‘in C’ but in a different octave than what is
 written are, technically speaking, _transposing instruments_:
 
    • piccolo (plays an octave higher than written)
    • celesta (plays an octave higher than written)
    • classical guitar (plays an octave lower than written)
    • double bass (plays an octave lower than written)
 
 
 See also
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    transposing instrument.
 

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