How many different instruments are in Ravel's Bolero? What are they?

"Bol茅ro is written for a large orchestra consisting of two flutes, piccolo, two oboes (oboe 2 doubles oboe d'amore), cor anglais, E-flat clarinet, two B-flat clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, piccolo trumpet in D, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, three saxophones (one sopranino, one soprano and one tenor 鈥?one of the first large ensemble pieces to employ the family), timpani, two snare drums, cymbals, tam-tam, celesta, harp and strings (violins, violas, cellos and double basses).

(The sopranino saxophone called for in the instrumentation is a sopranino saxophone in F; whilst the ones of today are in E-flat. It is not known if an F sopranino saxophone actually existed, or if the player transposed the part. Today, both the soprano saxophone and the sopranino saxophone parts are commonly played on the B-flat soprano saxophone.)"

Ughh. Too many, and @$% Ravel seems to think it would be a good idea for all of them to play the melody. This piece is painfully long and boring.

To add to "museofsatie" exact instrumentation list: The 4 or 5 percussion players also need a bass drum. The suspended cymbal, tam-tam and bass drum play only in the last 6 measures. The 2nd Clarinet can double on the Eb Clarinet part.

Adolph Sax did make a series of Saxophones in C and F to be used in orchestra music. They are rare and the sopranino and soprano are now played by the Bb soprano as she stated.

Bolero is one of the great examples of orchestration in Classical Music.