(Reposting from mandola thread) This printer-friendly, 1-page PDF chart shows the ranges and C-scale notes of common instruments including mandolin, guitar, bass, ukulele, tenor banjos and tenor guitars in 2 different tunings, 5-string banjos, as well as more mando-specific instruments such as mandola, mandocello, and mandobass. Each instrument's staff uses whichever clef(s) are appropriate for that instrument (whether treble clef, octave-treble clef, alto clef, bass clef, or octave bass clef). There is tab too.
The chart shows where each instrument's notes are in relation to a standard piano staff, which then determines where each instrument's notes are in relation to all the other instruments (as far as range and which octaves are used). The notes on the piano staff are labeled with the note names, and I put a circle around the "C" which is "middle C" on the piano. More info is in post #47 of the "Mandola and standard notation reading" thread.
I'm reposting the chart here in its own thread to make it (theoretically) easier to find, under the assumption that charts of this type have wider application than just 'dolas and CBOMs etc.
FWIW, I am hereby releasing this chart into the Public Domain so you can use it however you wish, repost it wherever you want, etc. I made the chart initially for myself, to help me understand where all those notes belonged, but thought other people might benefit from it as well. If it saves someone else the frustration of tuning an instrument wrong (like how I did before I made the chart, where I broke guitar strings because I was trying to tune to the wrong octave), then it will be serving a useful purpose.
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