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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. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuosity. [1]
The note C 4 written down produces: Comment Accordion: D ♭ piano accordion D ♭ 4: Bass accordion: C 2: Arpeggione: C 2 /C 3: Bagpipe Great Highland bagpipe: variable D ♭ 4 - D 4: A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭ 4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C).
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.
The standard notes of the open strings are E 1, A 1, D 2, and G 2, the same as an acoustic or electric bass guitar. However, the resonance of the wood, combined with the violin-like construction and long scale length gives the double bass a much richer tone than the bass guitar, in addition to the ability to use a bow, while the fretless ...
Note that the keys of the lower and higher versions are reversed. Often the terms bass and tenor or high are added to clarify which instrument one is talking about, e.g. quart-bass bassoon or high quint-bassoon (Hochquintfagott). One of the most common terms used to describe these instruments is the term tenoroon which is a contraction of ...
For very low bass parts, the Γ clef is found on the middle, fourth, or fifth lines of the staff (e.g., in Pierre de La Rue’s Requiem and in a mid-16th-century dance book published by the Hessen brothers); for very high parts, the high-D clef (d), and the even higher ff clef (e.g., in the Mulliner Book) were used to represent the notes ...
Tunings are described by the particular pitches that are made by notes in Western music. By convention, the notes are ordered and arranged from the lowest-pitched string (i.e., the deepest bass-sounding note) to the highest-pitched string (i.e., the highest sounding note), or the thickest string to thinnest, or the lowest frequency to the ...
The highest note is a semitone lower than the nominally highest note of ... (1970), Aulodia for Oboe d'amore (and guitar ad Libitum ... The Oboe and the Bassoon ...