Instrumentopedia

Instrumentopedia is a reference work on musical instruments for composers, arrangers, music students and teachers. It brings together what you need to know when writing for an instrument: range, transposition, playing techniques, notation and construction. WHAT’S INSIDE • More than 330 instruments: orchestral strings, winds and percussion, keyboards, folk, historical, microtonal and electronic instruments, and the human voice • Accessories, studio equipment and playing techniques: almost 500 entries in total • Illustrations with more than 2,800 labelled parts • Ranges and transpositions in notation, with an on-screen keyboard to play the notes (synthesized sound) • Tools for fingering charts, string harmonics, multiple stops, trombone slide positions, trills and tremolos, dynamics, extended and idiomatic techniques, playability, prepared instruments, guitar effects and recording • Ensemble builder and instrument combinations for orchestration • More than 1,800 repertoire examples and links to video examples on YouTube, which open only after you confirm WORKS OFFLINE All content is included in the app. No account required. Interface in 18 languages. FREE TO TRY 50 entries are free. A single one-time purchase, no subscription, unlocks all content.

Ranges and transpositions of all instruments have been checked and corrected on the detail pages, in the range explorer and in the texts. Register information for more instruments is now shown in music notation. Fingering charts: trombone with G♭ valve and pedal tones, additional fingerings for English horn, bass clarinet and contrabassoon. The dark theme now follows the setting in the app. Interface and content are now fully available in Luxembourgish, Russian and Polish. Bug fixes.