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The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. [1] It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood.
The contrabassoon is a very deep-sounding woodwind instrument that plays in the same sub-bass register as the tuba, double bass, or contrabass clarinet.It has a sounding range beginning at B ♭ 0 (or A 0, on some instruments) and extending up over three octaves to D 4, though the highest fourth is rarely scored for.
In many regards the smaller bassoons play much like the full-size bassoon.Currently there are three sizes available from four different makers. [Moosmann makes an instrument in F (a fourth higher than the normal bassoon) with simplified fingerings that descend only to low C and is intended for young children.
A number of jazz performers have used the baritone saxophone as their primary instrument. It is part of standard big band instrumentation (the larger bass saxophone was also occasionally used up until the 1940s). As phrased by Alain Cupper from JazzBariSax.com, "Used a few times in contemporary classical music...it is especially in jazz that ...
The Big Bassoon; Little Tunes for the Big Bassoon; The 2 Contras, with Burl Lane; The Bass Nightingale, GM 2069 [9]; New Tunes for the Big Bassoon; Bellissima: Italian Tunes for the Big Bassoon [10]
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.
The baroque rackett (developed by the Nuremberg maker Johann Christoph Denner) combined the folded bore concept with a conical (or pseudo-conical) bore profile; in essence, it is a bassoon in rackett form. It has ten parallel cylindrical bores whose diameters increase in succession to function as a true conical bore and allow overblowing at the ...
This article contains a list of notable bassoon makers. The lists are split up according to the two different systems used to construct the bassoon. Historic