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The first instrument was made, we are told, by Ravilius of Ferrara, from Afranio's design 6. Mersenne 2who does not seem to have any difficulty in understanding the construction of Afranio's phagotus, does not consider him the inventor of the fagotto or bassoon, but of another kind of fagotto which he classes with...
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www.1911encyclopedia.org/Bassoon
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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/B...
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for music class ... Sometime in the 1650s. The man most likely responsible for the development of the true bassoon was Martin Hotteterre (d.1712), who may also have been the inventor of the three-piece flûte traversière and the hautbois.
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A FEW NOTES ON THE BASSOON; Benjamin Kohon; (Solo Bassoon of New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra) ... The Bassoon was invented by an Italian monk in the 16th century, and was called the fagotto, from the Italian for stick, due to its resemblance in appearance in its original uncouth form to a bundle of sticks.
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Just a century later Ravilius of Ferrara made Afranio's first phagotus from the inventor's design. The bassoon has been a favourite with all the great masters, excepting Handel. Beethoven uses the bassoon largely in his symphonies, writing everywhere for it independent parts of great beauty and originality.
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Bassoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 1800s,...
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Diocese in Lombardy, northern Italy ... the canonZanella, inventor of the bassoon. The Gospel was brought to this city by St. Syrus, according to legend a disciple of St. Peter; but according to the martyrology of Ado, on the authority of an Aquileian martyrology, he was sent by St. Hermagoras, first Bishop of Aquileia.
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Unless a prior claim is made, ... To list or not to list? ... Alternative spellings are indicated by cross reference*, One of the most vexing problems has born the decision to modernize the German name Carl to Karl The tendency towards modernization has been strong in the last decades, and has found its reflection in the...
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The length of the bassoon means that it crosses the bassoonist when played, but it is the bassoon's extreme length that allows the bassoon to play both high as well as exceptionally deep tones. ... Interestingly, the father of Adolph Sax (inventor of the saxophone) was highly involved with bassoon design and making!
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www.dawkes.co.uk/instruments_standard_bassoon.asp
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