Orchestras are arranged according to the wishes and occasionally whims of the conductor and/or music director. However, some things about the orchestra's seating arrangement are strikingly common to all layouts.
The woodwinds, as a group, generally are placed in straight or slightly curved rows at the front of the non-string sections, centered. Most of the time, the flutes are to the left of the conductor, the oboes to the right. Generally, the clarinets are behind the flutes and the bassoons are behind the oboes, although some orchestras place the bassoons further to the right of the oboes.
The french horns (which are considered part of the woodwinds family despite being clearly brass family!) are generally placed to the conductor's right of the clarinets, with or without the bassoons in the second row.
Additions (like the English Horn, Baritone Oboe, Contrabassoon, Bass Clarinet, etc) would be put with their associated group. Generally, principals sit to the conductor's left, additions to his right.
In the related liks box below, I posted the orchestra layout.
In the center, behind a couple rows of strings.
Usually in the center of the stage, behind the 2nd violins and violas.
The front of the band instruments
The organization of an orchestra is hundreds of years old and fairly universal. Clarinets sit with similar instruments (like the oboe, bassoon and flute) in the center of the orchestra.
In the back, but in front of the percussion.
an organ is huge but not part of the orchestra is you want one in the orchestra then the piano
It is a large instrument and would obstruct the view (by the audience) of other instruments and players.
Wherever the conductor wants -- usually right in front of him. Wherever the conductor wants -- usually right in front of him.
They sit in front because wind instruments are louder, so winds are further back.
The organization of an orchestra is hundreds of years old and fairly universal. Clarinets sit with similar instruments (like the oboe, bassoon and flute) in the center of the orchestra.
In the back, but in front of the percussion.
an organ is huge but not part of the orchestra is you want one in the orchestra then the piano
It is a large instrument and would obstruct the view (by the audience) of other instruments and players.
Wherever the conductor wants -- usually right in front of him. Wherever the conductor wants -- usually right in front of him.
Generally at the back of the orchestra.
The percussion sits at the back. Brass sit below the percussion and above the woodwind. Th strings sit below the woodwind and to the right ( in a conductors view) of the harps and the piano if a full orchestra is needed! That is the normal positions they would sit in.
on a chair
In the center, behind the strings.
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Next to the flutes.