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  2. Tenoroon - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Bassoon - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. 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

  5. Contrabassoon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument family Instrument name 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

  7. Concert pitch - Wikipedia

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    Frequencies of other notes are defined relative to this pitch. The written pitches for transposing instruments do not match those of non-transposing instruments. For example, a written C on a B ♭ clarinet or trumpet sounds as a non-transposing instrument's B ♭. The term "concert pitch" is used to refer to the pitch on a non-transposing ...

  8. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones, struck or friction membranophones or struck chordophones. Where an instrument meets this definition but is often or traditionally excluded from the term percussion this is noted. Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion.

  9. Bassoon repertoire - Wikipedia

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    Concerto for bassoon and string orchestra opus 56a (2012) Howard J. Buss. Aquarius for 3 bassoons (2013) Ballad for bassoon and piano (2004) Behind the Invisible Mask for bassoon and one percussion (2004) Bassoonisms for four bassoons (2020) Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra (2022) Concerto for Bassoon for bassoon and piano (2017)