Musical Instrument Range Chart

Keyboard

Accordian

Piano
Organ

Chimes
Percussion
Timpani

Contrabass sarrusophone

Cornet/Trumpet

Alto mellophone
French horn
Trombone/Euphonium

Brass
Bass tuba

Guitar

Harp

Strings

Violin

Viola

Cello

Bass

Oboe

English horn

Bassoon

Piccolo

Soprano clarinet

Alto clarinet

Bass clarinet

Xylophone

Flute

Soprano saxophone
Alto saxophone
Tenor saxophone
Baritone saxophone

Bass saxophone

Woodwind

Vibraphone

Marimba

Bells

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Tenor

4186.0

3729.3

3951.1

3322.4

3520.0

2960.0

3136.0

2793.0

2489.0

2637.0

2217.5

2349.3

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1864.7

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1760.0

1480.0

1568.0

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1244.5

1318.5

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1174.7

1046.5

932.33

987.77

830.61

880.00

739.99

783.99

698.46

622.25

659.26

587.33

523.25

554.37

A-440

466.16

493.88

415.30

369.99

392.00

349.23

311.13

329.63

277.18

293.66

261.63

233.08

246.94

207.65

220.00

185.00

196.00

174.61

155.56

164.81

138.59

146.83

130.81

116.54

123.47

103.83

110.00

92.499

97.999

87.307

77.782

82.407

69.269

73.416

65.406

58.270

61.735

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55.000

46.249

48.999

43.654

38.891

41.203

34.648

36.708

32.703

30.863

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Middle C

Baritone

440.00

Voice

Soprano

Alto

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Redrawn by John Schneider. See John R. Pierce, The Science of Musical Sound (New York, 1992), pp. 18-19; Donald E. Hall, Mucical Acoustics: An Introduction (Pacific Grove, California,
1991), inside back cover; and Edward R. Tufte, Visual Explanations (Cheshire, Connecticut, 2001), p. 87.