When actually playing in a group, however, because it is more convenient to use names for the notes that are common to everyone, the notes are referred to in terms of actual sounds (hence term concert pitch). This arrangement was originally conceived with the intention of making saxophone fingerings easier. For an F major on the alto saxophone, the player should play a D major on the score. What that means in practice is that to play a concert F major on a tenor saxophone, the player should play a G major on the score. When a C is played on a tenor saxophone, however, the actual pitch produced corresponds to a B♭ on a piano, and in the case of an alto saxophone, playing a C actually produces an E♭. Tenor saxophones are tuned to B♭, and alto saxophones are tuned to E♭, but when playing the same note on a score, the fingerings are the same. Transposing instruments produce sounds different from those in the score and those produced by non-transposing instruments (the piano is the standard for actual or "concert" pitch). Because the saxophone is a transposing instrument, when changing from one instrument to another, such as from an alto to a tenor, playing the same score will produce different actual sounds.
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