range
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classification system in which vocal parts or musical instruments are grouped according to their range
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Encyclopedic overview
Written range of a saxophone. In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice, the equivalent is vocal range. The range of a musical part is the distance between its lowest and highest note.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “range” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.