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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000049.txt from 2003/03

From: ContraReed@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Playing contrabassoon
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:42:18 -0500

In a message dated 3/6/03 6:49:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ann@-----.com writes:

<< It's almost entirely because of the change in reeds and
embouchure. Do other people notice this as well?
<snip>

I have found that playing bassoon is much easier after playing contra for a
while. >>

One thing I discovered that made playing contra easier was doubling on
contrabass sarrusophone. After playing that thing, the contrabassoon reed
seemed so small and easy to control!!!