Clarinets and saxophones are both transposing instruments.
Yes. The saxophone is in the key of Eb and Bb. Any instrument not in the key of C, is a transposing instrument. Non-transposing - Key of C - Piano, Guitar, Flute etc. Transposing - All other keys - Saxophone, Clarinet, Trumpet etc. Yes. The saxophone is in the key of Eb and Bb. Any instrument not in the key of C, is a transposing instrument. Non-transposing - Key of C - Piano, Guitar, Flute etc. Transposing - All other keys - Saxophone, Clarinet, Trumpet etc.
clarinets (and cor anglais)
Yes, anything not pitched in C is a transposing instrument.
Timpani
Clarinets and saxophones are both transposing instruments.
Yes. The saxophone is in the key of Eb and Bb. Any instrument not in the key of C, is a transposing instrument. Non-transposing - Key of C - Piano, Guitar, Flute etc. Transposing - All other keys - Saxophone, Clarinet, Trumpet etc. Yes. The saxophone is in the key of Eb and Bb. Any instrument not in the key of C, is a transposing instrument. Non-transposing - Key of C - Piano, Guitar, Flute etc. Transposing - All other keys - Saxophone, Clarinet, Trumpet etc.
Yes.
clarinets (and cor anglais)
Yes it is.
Yes, anything not pitched in C is a transposing instrument.
No. It plays in the key of C.
No piano is a concert pitch instrument. Strictly speaking a transposing instrument is any instrument that the base note is not C in English and Do in Italian. As a piano is a stringed instrument, it does not have a base note as such, and when one presses what he or she supposes as C, the note heard is C.
Timpani
The tympani, kettle drum, and the timps are other names for the timpani.
You may be thinking of timpani. Timpani is a class of drum most commonly called kettle drums.
Timpani is the lowest i can think of. :)