How many keys does the bassoon have?

The bassoon has the most keys out of any instrument. It has 9 keys for the left thumb alone, 4 for the right thumb, 4 keys and 2 holes for the left hand and 6 keys and 2 holes for the right hand. This makes a total of 23 keys and 4 holes.

Bassoons don't use valves, they use finger holes, regular keys, and whisper keys.

The bassoon is made out of wood or plastic. They evelved from the Dulcian the had like 4 keys most of the note changes were in embassure. the bassoon came to be around the 1600's-1700's

Yes, according to the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, a bassoon is classified as a double-reeded aerophone with keys.

A Bassoon is a long instrument that is played with a double wooden reed connected to a bocal that attaches into the instrument. The instrument itself contains of 4 different parts. The Bassoon has keys as well as holes to cover. The left thumb itself can cover around 5-7 keys. The right thumb can cover around 4 keys.

The five base instruments are the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone, with a variety of sizes and keys for each type.

A bassoon can do approximately 4 octaves, but can do an even higher C if the reed is taken of a bit and only two particular keys are pressed.

The bassoon has changed many, many times before.

bassoon players are mossly famose because there are not many of them

Usually Maple wood is used, the bassoon makers usually carve out holes for the fingers and line them with metal or rubber, then they add lacquer and darken the wood. then they add the Key mechanisms and the keys themselves and string the tenons and you have a bassoon. most prominent tool is a mandrill...

Student models generally have 8 keys on the top back and 2 in front, as well as 8 keys on the bottom half (4 front and 4 back). It depends on the model. A Pro Line model would have 9 keys on the top back. So depending still on which model you are looking at, it would have 18 or 19 keys.

The bassoon is adouble reed instrument. The reed is attached to a bocal (or crook) which is slipped into the tenor (wing) joint. The body of the bassoon is wrapped around itself in the boot joint which holds the bass joint, the longest one. The bell joint is at the end of the instrument where the sound comes out. The bassoon has a total of 16 thumb keys, 12 for the left and 4 for…

people who play the bassoon are people who play the bassoon, like me from bassoon bandit

A bassoon is a woodwind instrument often played with an orchestra. Lots of people play it today and do musical exams. It's quite long and has lot's of keys. You blow into it with a reed. Long ago, it was called a Bass Oon!

well the bassoon has been played in many places so it is hard to answer the question

Typically the double bassoon (or contrabassoon) is given to the third or fourth chair bassoon, leaving the principal bassoon to play the 1st bassoon part and the 2nd chair bassoon to play the 2nd bassoon part. In some cases the double bassoon part is an auditioned spot, meaning that someone specifically auditioned for the double bassoon.

Yes, a German bassoon and a french bassoon

A bassoon is an instrument in C. A summary table for many instruments can be found here: http://www.apassion4jazz.net/transposition.html

The website jimstockigtinfo.com lists many arias with obbligato bassoon, published and unpublished.

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It depends on the bassoon. If its a student bassoon, plastic, and used it'll be a lot cheaper then a wooden student bassoon. Most student bassoon ive seen are from around 6k to 13k. Professional bassoon can be a lot more expensive then that though....

Its not how many reeds it has its what type. It has a double reed

The bassoon was invented in Germany.

pie from bassoon bandit

Not on a bassoon maybe a Tenon??