Re: Instrument line in header block - first piece only?

[Tim Roberts]

Tim Reeves wrote:
> Clarinet players switch actual 
> instruments more than anyone I'd say, and I don't play clarinet, so I 
> can't speak to that, but I have a feeling that they likewise assume B-flat 
> until they are told something else.

Band players can.  Orchestral players really can't make assumptions.  A
survey of orchestral clarinet parts done a decade or so ago showed a
distribution of about 40% clarinet in A, 40% clarinet in Bb, and 20%
clarinet in C, with a smattering of other oddities.

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Tim Roberts, address@hidden
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