Piccolo clarinet
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The piccolo clarinets are members of the clarinet family, smaller and higher pitched than the more familiar soprano clarinets. None is common, but the most often used piccolo clarinet is the A♭ clarinet, playing nearly an octave higher than the familiar B♭ clarinet. Shackleton also lists obsolete instruments in C, B♭, and A. Some writers call these sopranino clarinets or octave clarinets.
The boundary between the piccolo and soprano clarinets is not well-defined, and the rare instruments in G and F might be considered as either. Clarinets pitched in F, G, and A♭ appear in Italian marching bands and several of the operas of Gioacchino Rossini, which employ backstage bands in addition to the orchestra; they are referred to in the scores as clarinetto piccolo in Fa, Sol, and La♭, respectively.[citation needed]
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- Nicholas Shackleton. "Clarinet", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 21 February 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
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