Bassoon

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No, sadly. The bassoon is one of the most uncommon instruments that their is in a band (except the recorder, which is about number two on the unpopular scale). If you want to play a unique instrument, then you should play bassoon.

No, the bassoon's fingerings are not the same as the fingering of oboes.

There was a time, back when oboes were first invented and bassoons were just changing over from the single-piece dulcian to the four-piece basson/bassoon that the fingering of the two instruments was quite similar, and had much in common with the recorder and flute as well.

With the split between the German and french schools of double reed instruments, though, it's hard to say that all bassoon fingerings are alike, or that all oboe fingerings are alike!

The major difference in fingering between all oboes and all bassoons comes from the fact that the bassoon's bore is folded. This means that two lengths of the bore, the part that makes high notes and the part that makes low notes, run parallel to each other. As a result, keys that affect low notes appear near keys which affect high notes, and fingers serve multiple duties.

Because of the size of the bassoon, it is generally supported from the lower end by a belt-like strap which the player sits upon. The oboe, though, is smaller, and is generally supported by the right thumb of the player. The immobilized thumb of the oboist and the free right thumb of the bassoonist lead to further differences between the instruments. The oboist has multiple keys which are operated by the little fingers and a key and a hole with a ring (the ring acts like another key) under the left thumb. The bassoonist, though, has two keys under the left little finger, as many as four under the right little finger, between 3 and 5 under the right thumb, and anywhere between 8 and 12 keys to operate with the left thumb!

If you were to consider the basic octave, though, there is a strong similarity between all of these instruments: the three fingers of the left hand (minus the little finger), the four of the right hand, and the left thumb are employed in playing the basic octave and most of the next octave. However, in all varieties of oboe and bassoon, accidental keys, whisper/voice keys (which help to sound upper octaves) and lower-range extension keys differ greatly.

I play the oboe and tried the bassoon for a few weeks. I found that the fingerings are the more or less the same but at a fifth difference, so an F on the oboe is a Bb on the bassoon.

To play the bassoon you must be trained by a teacher, but, although it helps to have relatively large hands, you can play the instrument just as well with very small hands if you are trained well enough.

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is the lowest, or bass, voice in the woodwind choir. It often duplicates the cello voice in orchestral compositions.

It depends on how skilled you are. For some people it takes an hour or less, but some people take days.

thay say 40 years ;(

The bassoon is a very versatile instrument. It is typically used to orchestral pieces and is the shining star in Fantasia. It also has key jobs in symphonic band music. It is slowly coming into the jazz world, especially by adventurous japanese composers. It is popular among chamber music. The bassoon also has many solos dedicated to it, such as Rhapsody for Bassoon by Wilson Osborne. So really the bassoon can play any song, and if you get into contrabassoon, you could probably attempt dubstep! :D

The total in hours would be 423, 25,920 minutes, or a total of 155,520 seconds.

It takes one week to make jelly-beans! A whole week!

There are no real accurate figures for this as many armature players are no accounted for but it is estimated that over 400,00 play the game - This includes both sex's, junior youth and senior levels plus schools, colleges and universities

You play bassoon with your fingers, all of them, except for your right hand's ring finger. You blow into the bassoon through the reed, and you move your fingers to make the note change.

To make different notes that are not slurred (like above), you pulse your tongue back and forth against the reed.

Also, be sure to take long and deep breaths so that you can make a very full sound.

You play with all of your fingers including your right hand ring finger.

There isn't a single instrument that answers the question; the flute is part of the woodwind family so possible answers include clarinet, oboe, saxophone, tin whistle.

I'm pretty sure that ALL flutes, including piccolo, bass, and standard flutes (key of c) all have the same buttons anf fingerings...

if you want to know the number of keys, it depends I guess, because there are thetrill keys, and then some keys that go down when you press others... but if you count every single moving button on the flute, theres like 24?

The bassoon's weight is a byproduct of the materials it is made from. A good average value would be around 3.5Kg (around 7.5 pounds.) However, a thin-walled french bassoon made of a light wood with a minimum of keys will weigh much less than this, while a German bassoon made of dense wood and decked out with keys to go from low BBb into the stratosphere (thank you, Mr. Stravinsky) will weigh more.

However, the weight of the bassoon itself is almost immaterial. The normal and preferred way of holding the bassoon while playing is to use a belt or similar long strip of material with a hook on the end, which fits into a hole or ring at the base of the bassoon. The player sits on the belt, adjusting the bassoon's position until the reed sits right at mouth-level. Then, the bassoon is nearly entirely supported by the belt, and the player's hands are free to finger the instrument.

None-the-less, the bassoon can also be suspended from a neck-strap, like saxophones, using a loop which is often supplied on the metal band at the top of the boot joint (the lowest part of the bassoon), from which it is very nearly balanced. This is often used when the player is standing or (if brave) marching with the instrument. Then, the left hand contributes a little to the support of the bassoon.

Quite often, the case for the bassoon, complete with a small glass to hold water (to soak the reed) and a gaggle of tools for making and adjusting reeds, weighs more than the whole bassoon!

It is unclear who the original inventor is, since some details of history have been erased from our knowledge. For information concerning the bassoon and some of it's history, see the wikipedia.org article at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon

woodwind instruments are a type of instrument. Woodwinds are the instruments that are usually played with a reed and is made of wood, like a clarinet, sax, bassoon, and flute(even though it isnt made of wood or has a reed) there are many others such as bass clarinet, tenor sax, contrabass clarinet, bari sax etc

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Yes, you can get a scholarship for playing the oboe. Many colleges give scholarships for musicians and the schools are always in need for rare instruments like oboes, tubas, and bassoon, to name a few.

A bass drum is indeed considered a Percussion instrument both inside and outside a band. No matter where you place it, a band, marching band, Orchestra,etc., a bass drum will always be a percussion instrument.

Our band is pretty small but we have 2 bass clarinets so yeah, bass clarinets are in marching band.

Yes, they are in marching band. I have a marching band of 209 and we have 3 bass clarinet marchers. I will be marching next year. I currently play clarinet. But don't worry, when I was in 8th grade I didn't know that they were in marchin band.

The Proper name for the bass guitar is The Electric Bass.It has a closer relationship with the upright bass rather than the guitar.The first bass that was electrified, was an upright bass that was the size of a cello back in the early 1930's by Paul Tutmarc from Spokane ,Washington. He had taken a pickup made out of a telephone transducer and used the basstrings from a piano as strings for his electric bass. He had first used this pick up on guitars. He wanted to make it easier for the upright bass to be heard as many on that instrument had to play very hard to be heard without ampification, unless the bass could be mmicrophoned. In 1941, Paul reduced the size of the bass to make it easier to transport and store. It's design looked much like the electric basses that we play today.This bass was known as the Serenader and sold for 139 bucks back in the late 1940's it included a case. In 1951 Guitar maker Leo Fender invented the first successful electric bass known as the Precision Bass. The bass that really made it popular.During the fifties and early 60's the Upright bass was still the dominant bass in Pop music.The first Jazz bassist to play electric bass was Monk Montgomery. In 1963 Female bassist and Studio legend Carol Kaye picked up a Fender electric Bass and created a sound that became popualr on a many ahit record. James Jamerson also had a distinctive sound .Fender created a second sucessful bass the Jazz bass wich first debuted in 1960. Over the years Fender has kept these basses in production and makes many different models and configurations .Always craeting something new each year. The first bass to feature active electronics was the Alembic Bass the Creation of Ron Wickersham.Stanley Clarke, Phil Lesh and John Paul Jones really popularized the use of these basses. Stanley Still uses Alembics as his main basses after 37 years. The electric bass has evolved thru the years not olny by the many manufacturers of this instrument but also the players. Some are: Jaco pastorius, Larry Graham ( the creator fo the Slap technique on electric bass),Anthony Jackson ,Marcus Miller,Louis Johnson, Rocco Prestia, Bernard Edwards, Geddy Lee,Carol Kaye, Victor Wooten, Lincoln Goines , Mark King and many others. All comments in this post are only as accurate as the information available to me. Please check all sources.The info was contained from several different sources. R. Ford

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A contrabassoon, also known as a double bassoon. It plays an octave lower than a regular bassoon. Hope this helped! xx