What’s on the Instrument Ranges poster
A 10-row table: Instrument · Low · High.
Sounding pitch, not written. C4 is middle C.
- Piccolo — D5 — C8
- Flute — C4 — C7
- Clarinet (B♭) — D3 — C7
- Alto sax — D♭3 — A♭5
- Trumpet — F♯3 — D6
- French horn — B1 — F5
- Trombone — E2 — B♭4
- Violin — G3 — A7
- Cello — C2 — C6
- Double bass — E1 — C4
The top of any range is loud, effortful and hard to play quietly. Reach for it deliberately, not by accident.
Questions about the Instrument Ranges poster
- What’s on the Instrument Ranges poster?
- A 10-row table: Instrument · Low · High. Sounding pitch, not written. C4 is middle C. Piccolo — D5 — C8; Flute — C4 — C7; Clarinet (B♭) — D3 — C7; Alto sax — D♭3 — A♭5; Trumpet — F♯3 — D6; French horn — B1 — F5; Trombone — E2 — B♭4; Violin — G3 — A7; Cello — C2 — C6; Double bass — E1 — C4. The top of any range is loud, effortful and hard to play quietly. Reach for it deliberately, not by accident.
- Who is the Instrument Ranges poster for?
- Instrument Ranges belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning instruments can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Instrument Ranges poster?
- Write inside the comfortable range, not the extreme one. The extremes exist but they cost something. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Instrument Ranges belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Instrument Ranges?
- Bass Guitar, The Brass Family and Cello Basics sit alongside Instrument Ranges in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bass GuitarThe Brass FamilyCello Basics
- Is the Instrument Ranges poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Instrument Ranges downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Instrument Ranges poster print at?
- Instrument Ranges is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Instrument Ranges loses nothing.Printing guide
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