The playing range of a musical instrument is the region of pitch in which it can play, i.e. upper and lower boundaries of the notes it can play. Its designated range is the set of notes the player should or can achieve while playing. All instruments have a designated range, and all pitched instruments have a playing range. A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... In music, pitch is the perception of the frequency of a note. ...

"Range" sometimes refers just to the size of the range, as in "A horn has a greater range than a trumpet."

While most woodwind instrument have no upper limit of their range, most cannot go below their designated range, but this is not the case for brass instruments. All brass instruments can play beyond and below their designated range, and these notes are called pedal tones. Notes higher than the brass instrument's designated range are called screech notes. In this case, the playing range of a brass instrument depends on both the technical limitations of the instrument and the skill of the one playing it. A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ... A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator (mouthpiece). ... Pedal point (also pedal tone, organ point, or just pedal) is a musical term describing any sustained or repeated note, usually in the bass, with changing harmonies in the other voices. ...

Typical ranges