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When you play the pitch “C” on an E flat instrument, it will sound like concert E flat. The most commonly played clarinet is the “B flat” or soprano clarinet. Like the trumpet, tenor saxophone, and soprano saxophone, it is in the key of B flat.
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Understanding Clarinet Transposition.
| Written E flat Clarinet Pitch | Actual Concert Pitch |
|---|---|
| A | C |
| A flat | C flat |
How do you convert concert pitch?
So you take the score for a B-flat instrument and, to write it out for a piano or other C instrument (in other words, to write it out in Concert Pitch), you move it down a Major 2nd. Then both instruments will be playing the same pitch - the trumpet with the original score and the piano with the transposed score."
What note is concert C on clarinet?
Concert C is their D, Concert Ab is their Bb. Alto and baritone saxes, alto clarinet and most alto horns are Eb instruments: when they play a C it sounds like a Eb on the piano.
What note is concert pitch?
Concert pitch may vary from ensemble to ensemble, and has varied widely over music history. The most common modern tuning standard uses 440 Hz for A above middle C as a reference note, with other notes being set relative to it. In the literature this is also called international standard pitch.
