Used Musical Instruments

What orchestra instrument's sheet music is compatible with a guitar?

Q: Hey!
I play guitar and I was wondering what instrument typically played in an orchestra or school band has a range and pitch similar enough to that of a guitar that I could read that instruments sheet music and play it with my guitar? If that's kind of hard to understand, an example would be playing a piano's sheet music with a guitar, and it sounding good, but I'm not sure if that's possible.. that's why I'm asking you! Thanks!

A: Piano, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Trombone, Tuba, Mallets (xylophones, vibraphones, etc..), Violin, Cello, Viola. Of course, some of those will be out of the guitars actual note range, but they are all compatible. Good Luck man.

Bass flute story, lesson, and size comparison.

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John Cage, Ten. Ryoanji. Fourteen

Beginning with Music for carillon Nº1 of 1952, John Cage – who lived from 1912 to 1992- has often been using visual models as a means of composing. These models acted as “found objects”, with which the composer made an attempt to avoid control on the details of the resulting music, even if he determined the overall character by his design of the change mechanisms within which these models operate. Thus, the starting point for Ryoanji, which Cage began in 1983, was the wish to compose a microtonal music for oboe with percussion accompaniment, the melodic part representing the stones, the percussion part the raked sand of the Ryoanji garden of Kyoto. Between 1983 and 1985 Cage composed additional melodic parts for voice, flute, trombone, and contrabass (to be performed alone or together in any combination), and arranged the obbligato percussion accompaniment for an instrumental ensemble consisting of any twenty instruments. (In the present recording, flute and trombone are combined with percussion solo). For the melodic parts, Cage traced parts of the perimeters of fifteen stones from his own collection- fifteen being the number of stones in the Ryoanji garden-, resulting in a music of glissandi, to be played ´like sound events in nature rather than sounds in music´.
Rectangular systems act as enlarged staves within which equal space is given to each semitone. The flute plays in its lower octave only, and the trombone in an extremely low range, between F” and G” sharp. However, each facing pair of pages is a separate section, having an individual range (varying between one and ten semitones) within the given ranges for both instruments. Since the vertical...

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