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The oboe and bassoon have double reeds, and the clarinet a single reed, made of a species of cane, as intermediate agents of sound production.
The place of the oboe in the wood wind band between the flute and the clarinet, with the bassoon for a bass, is beyond the possibility of improvement by any change.
From the bass and double quint pommers came ultimately the bassoon and contra-bassoon, and from the alto pommer, an obsolete instrument for which Bach wrote, called the oboe di caccia, or hunting oboe, an appellation unexplained, unless it had originally a horn-like tone, and was, as it has been suggested to me by Mr.
The tenoroon, with which the oboe di caccia has been compared, was a high bassoon really on octave and a fifth below.
The bassoon is the legitimate bass to the oboe and to the wood wind in general.
In the oboe and bassoon the player has the full control of the reed with the lips, which is of great importance, both in expression and intonation.
The bassoon economizes length, by being turned back upon itself, and, from its appearance, obtains in Italy and Germany the satirical appellation of "fagotto" or "fagott.
From this reason-and perhaps the necessity of a bassoon player becoming intimately familiar with his instrument-bassoons by some of the older makers-notably, Savory-are still sought after, in preference to more modern ones.
The compass of the bassoon is from B flat, an octave below that in the bass clef, to B flat in the treble clef, a range of three octaves, produced by normal pressure, as far as the bass clef F.
There is a very telling quality in the upper notes of the bassoon of which composers have made use.
Structurally, a bassoon consists of several pieces, the wing, butt, long joints, and bell, and when fitted together, they form a hollow cone of about eight feet long, the air column tapering in diameter from three-sixteenths of an inch at the reed to one and three-quarter inches at the bell end.
In course of time keys were added to it, and when changed into a bassoon shape its name changed to the Russian bass horn or basson Russe.
Indeed there may be generally observed in him an unbending, unyielding, brass-bound air, as if he were himself the bassoon of the human orchestra.
The old girl borrowed a bassoon from the bandmaster of the Rifle Regiment.
George does not again rise to his full height in that parlour until the time is drawing on when the bassoon and fife are expected by a British public at the theatre; and as it takes time even then for Mr.
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