# 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](/source/Woodwind) and [brass](/source/Brass_instruments).

## Woodwind instruments

The E♭ Clarinet

- [Sopranino saxophone](/source/Sopranino_saxophone)

- [Alto saxophone](/source/Alto_saxophone)

- [Baritone saxophone](/source/Baritone_saxophone)

- [Contrabass saxophone](/source/Contrabass_saxophone)

- [Soprano flute](/source/Soprano_flute)

- [E♭ clarinet](/source/E-flat_clarinet)

- [Alto Clarinet](/source/Alto_Clarinet)

- [Contra-alto Clarinet](/source/Contra-alto_Clarinet)

- [Octocontra-alto clarinet](/source/Octocontra-alto_clarinet)

## Brass instruments

- [E♭ cornet](/source/Soprano_cornet), also known as a soprano cornet

- [Tenor horn](/source/Tenor_horn), known as an Alto Horn in the US

- [Tuba](/source/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](/source/Cornet)

- [Mellophone](/source/Mellophone)

- [Alto trombone](/source/Alto_trombone)

- Vocal horn ([cornet](/source/Cornet) with an upward-facing [bell](/source/Bell_(wind)))

- Duplex horn (Gemelli) pitched in E♭

- [Tenor horn](/source/Tenor_horn) (with a forward-facing [bell](/source/Bell_(wind)))

- Tenor ventil horn pitched in E♭ (an early horn that was one of the first to use [valves](/source/Piston_valve))

- Over the shoulder [bass horn](/source/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'.

## [Percussion](/source/Percussion) and [stringed instruments](/source/Stringed_instruments)

- [Clavichord](/source/Clavichord) pitched in E♭

- Mōsō [biwa](/source/Biwa) pitched in E♭

[*Ecossaise in E-flat*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beethoven_-_Ecossaise_in_E-flat.ogg)

A piano solo by [Ludwig van Beethoven](/source/Ludwig_van_Beethoven) played in the key of E♭ major.

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## See also

- [E-flat major](/source/E-flat_major)

- [E♭](/source/E%E2%99%AD_(musical_note))

## External links

- [A list of historical E♭ instruments](http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ubl/ublh09.html#ublh09m)

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

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