Sentence examples for transposing instruments from inspiring English sources

Unless you have a really expensive tuner that you can adjust to different transposing instruments, be aware that the note you play and the one that shows up on the screen will not be the same, as the tuner is displaying your note in concert pitch.

Make sure any handwritten music is clear and in the correct key for the instrument (see transposing instruments) Make sure you have a full score and full parts.

Having played only in brass bands, he did not realize that in the orchestra, the trumpet is a transposing instrument: when it plays a note written as a C, the actual sound is B flat.

Keep in mind that the clarinet is a transposing instrument.

Keep in mind that the tenor sax is a transposing instrument.

To make music sound right (and to reduce tension in the band) we need to write parts for the transposing instrument so that the trumpet player and the keyboard player are playing in the same apparent key.

Since the clarinet is a transposing instrument, it actually starts and ends on C (to play it one octave, start on below-the-staff C and end on third space C).

Keep in mind that the lap harp is not a transposing instrument, so the note you see on the screen when you play a note will be in concert pitch.

(See also instrumentation; transposing musical instrument).

A decent working knowledge of music theory will help a lot with transposing any instruments.

The bassoonists en masse call themselves Bassoon Consort Frankfurt, their leader and founder is Henrik Rabien, who made the arrangement and plays first bassoon, and who kept the music's original key and just transposed the instruments down an octave.