This is what we’ve been waiting for! In a glance, on a single sheet, from a single source. A complete rundown of all the need-to-knows for all the commonly used instruments in a standard symphony orchestra.

 

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One of the biggest challenges of the creation of this sheet would have to be the transposing instruments. In this video we try to unpack, how transposition works, and why on earth some instruments do it?

We’d like to thank the many people who contributed to making this sheet the definitive last-word on these instruments we look forward to following up soon with extended instruments and maybe even a saxophone or two!

Ed Harper, Justinb3, Rondowriter, Martin Ryves, Stephen Tallamy, Dsorah, StephenP, Charles Gaskill, Ben Hawkins, David, Jamie Sheldrick, David T.G., Lizelleclarinet, Chris, Prodanicaleksander.

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