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Reasons for transposing

Ease of switching instruments

Some instruments are constructed in a variety of sizes, with the larger versions having a lower range than the smaller ones. Common examples are clarinets (the high E clarinet, soprano instruments in C, B and A, the alto in E, and the bass in B), flutes (the piccolo, transposing at the octave, the standard concert-pitch

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