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  2. Recorder (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Also of note is the occasional use of notes outside the normal two octave compass of the recorder: the range of the solo sections is two octaves from notated F4 to notated F6, however there is a single notated C4 in the first movement of RV 444, a notated E4 in a tutti section in the first movement of RV 443 and low E4 in multiple tutti ...

  3. Altissimo - Wikipedia

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    Saxophone altissimo is generally considered to be any note that is higher than written high F ♯, which is considered the highest note in the saxophone's regular range.. Altissimo is produced by the player using various voicing techniques such as air stream, tongue, throat and embouchure variations to disturb the fundamental of a note, which results in one of the higher overtones domina

  4. Bassoon repertoire - Wikipedia

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    Libby Larsen: Jazz Variations for Solo Bassoon (1977), Concert Piece for Bassoon and Piano (2008), Full Moon in the City (2013) Lior Navok: Ex Silentium for bassoon and piano (2018) Robert Paterson: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano [3] (2001); Elegy for Two Bassoons and Piano [4] (2006–07) Wolfgang Rihm: Psalmus for bassoon and orchestra (2007)

  5. The One Note Man - Wikipedia

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    The film is an adaptation of H. M. Bateman's "The One-Note Man", which first appeared in Punch on December 14, 1921. In the cartoon, the One-Note Man is a clarinetist . [ 2 ] Alfred Hitchcock used it as an inspiration for the cymbal player in The Man Who Knew Too Much .

  6. Bassoon Concerto (Weber) - Wikipedia

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    This work and the Mozart Bassoon Concerto are the two concertos most often played in the bassoon repertoire. William Waterhouse asserts, “The bassoon concerto by Weber ranks second only to that of Mozart in importance.” [1] The concertos by Mozart and Weber were in the repertoire used for the famous playing exams at the Paris Conservatoire, along with newly commissioned works by French ...

  7. Great bass recorder - Wikipedia

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    The great bass recorder requires a key for the bottom note, which was protected by a so-called fontanelle. An S-shaped bocal or crook is used to make it somewhat more comfortable to play the instrument. Because the finger holes are not covered with keys, some of the tone holes are placed in acoustically unfavorable locations to accommodate the ...

  8. Bass recorder - Wikipedia

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    A bass recorder is a wind instrument in F 3 that belongs to the family of recorders.. The bass recorder plays an octave lower than the alto or treble recorder. In the recorder family it stands in between the tenor recorder and C great-bass (or quart-bass) recorder.

  9. French horn - Wikipedia

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    The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.