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1.68 concert pitch

ES: en Do, tono de concierto, I: intonazione reale, F: tonalité de concert, en ut, D: Kammerton, in C, NL: ?, DK: ikke-transponerende, S: ?, FI: konserttikorkeus.

The pitch at which the piano and other nontransposing instruments play: such instruments are said to be ‘in C’. The following list includes some (but not all) instruments that play in concert pitch.

Woodwinds	Strings
flute	violin
oboe	viola
bassoon	violoncello

Instruments that play ‘in C’ but in a different octave than what is written are, technically speaking, transposing instruments:

• piccolo (plays an octave higher than written)
• celesta (plays an octave higher than written)
• classical guitar (plays an octave lower than written)
• double bass (plays an octave lower than written)

See also

transposing instrument.