The orchestration is dominated by high or low instruments (notably, violins and bass clarinets).

The higher instruments play soaring counterpoint lines, all of which is marked ff.

The sopranino and piccolo trombones are even smaller and higher instruments than the soprano; they are also extremely rare.

It was the most astonishing voice Mili had ever encountered in a man, an androgynously high instrument that fell just south of a soprano.

This means that the concert flute is one of the highest common orchestral instruments, with the exception of the piccolo, which plays an octave higher.

The "March" of the Second Suite begins with a simple five note motif between the low and high instruments of the band.

There are different clefs to suit high, medium or low instruments.

The typical two-instrument configuration would have the high instrument playing a scalar melody against a lower instrument confined to the notes of the tonic chord.

The violin part, played here by Michael Tree, consistently lies in the instrument's higher registers, where it is strenuously pushed and stretched.

It is the highest instrument in the orchestra.