When you play a C on a C instrument the note produced is a C natural. On a Bb instrumenmt, a C is a Bb. There are also Eb instruments. It is for brass and woodwind instruments mainly, such as trumpet and saxophone.
When you play a C on a C instrument the note produced is a C natural. On a Bb instrumenmt, a C is a Bb. There are also Eb instruments. It is for brass and woodwind instruments mainly, such as trumpet and saxophone.
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
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Here's an article about instruments being made with transposed pitches:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposing_instrument
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
"Theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!"~John McGann
"IT'S T-R-E-M-O-L-O, dangit!!"~Me
I have a piccolo mandolin (11" scale) that I describe as a C instrument because it is tuned 5 steps above standard mandolin tuning so that the lowest (tone) string is a C major, unlike a G on a normal mandolin. This gives a C chord with the position of a G chord as one would finger on a standard mandolin. It also can be tuned in Bflat tuning, i.e. 3 steps/frets above std. mando tuning. The C chop chord and a B chord chord are really things to behold. The Bflat tuning is cool for jamming in the first position with horn players.
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