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List of E-flat instruments

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The following is a list of E instruments, or instruments for which the concert pitch of E is notated as C in standard terminology. They are listed by the type of instrument, such as woodwind and brass.

Woodwind instruments

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The E Clarinet

Brass instruments

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  • E cornet, also known as a soprano cornet
  • Tenor horn, known as an Alto Horn in the US
  • Tuba in E-flat (written at concert pitch when using the bass clef, only transposing when written in treble clef)
  • Circular altohorn (Koenig horn) pitched in E
  • Tenor cornet
  • Mellophone
  • Alto trombone
  • Vocal horn (cornet with an upward-facing bell)
  • Duplex horn (Gemelli) pitched in E
  • Tenor horn (with a forward-facing bell)
  • Tenor ventil horn pitched in E (an early horn that was one of the first to use valves)
  • Over the shoulder bass horn pitched in E
  • Solo Horn, an Alto Horn wrapped like a Cornet with forward facing bell

Cornets are occasionally known as coronets, although this may be a historical corruption of the word 'cornet'.

See also

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