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When constructed, they are about 4' 4" tall.
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The modern day bassoon was first made in Germany, but similar reed instruments date back to ancient Egyptian times.
Well the bassoon has many names just like any instrument, and like many low-playing instruments, the bassoon in English has the word "bass" used in the name, but "bassoon" isn't the instruments first name. The first names of the bassoon were, Fag0tt, Fag0tt0, or Fag0t, depending on which language or region the printed music was made in.
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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.
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Not on a bassoon maybe a Tenon??
I am just not interested in playing the bassoon.
Around the start of the nineteenth century, the first battery was constructed by Alessandro Volta.
A bassoon can play 4 octaves.
The bassoon is pitched in the Key of C.