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While the early history of the Heckel bassoon included a complete overhaul of the instrument in both acoustics and key work, the development of the Buffet system consisted primarily of incremental improvements to the key work. This minimalist approach of the Buffet deprived it of improved consistency of intonation, ease of operation, and ...
Racketts, from Michael Praetorius' Syntagma Musicum Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia (1619). The rackett, raggett, cervelas, or sausage bassoon is a Renaissance-era double reed wind instrument, introduced late in the sixteenth century and already superseded by bassoons at the end of the seventeenth century.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The bassoon repertoire consists of pieces of music composed for bassoon as a principal instrument that may be performed with ...
Like all bassoons, it is a double-reed instrument. It has 19 keys and two open holes. [4] The galandronome is tuned in B♭, below the normal bassoon in C and above the semi-contrabassoon in F or G. The only known surviving instrument is found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It carries the engraving “Innové / par Galander ...
There are also many names by which the instrument is known: tenoroon (a contraction of tenor bassoon), quart- and quint-bassoon (the former for the instrument in F and the latter for the one in G), fagottino, and mini-bassoon. Tenor bassoons have been made in many various keys: D ♭, E ♭, F, and G.
The semi-contrabassoon (also called quint bassoon, semi-contra or half-contra) is a double reed woodwind instrument pitched between the bassoon and the contrabassoon.It is pitched in either F (quint bass) or G (quart bass) a fifth or fourth, respectively, below the bassoon.
The basso continuo, or short: continuo, the typical bass group of the period, consisted of a group of instruments, depending upon the other instruments playing and the performance location. A group may consist of cello, double bass (an octave lower) and organ. A bassoon is typically playing when other wind instruments are called for.
As an authentic instrument, the great bass recorder has a short history of about 100 to 120 years. The instrument is only described in the Syntagma Musicum of Michael Praetorius (1619) and Marin Mersenne (L'Harmonie Universelle, Paris 1637). The earliest great bass recorder is probably that in the collection of Venetian Catajo Palace.