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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2006/10

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] French bassoon
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:44:08 -0400

I have a French system bassoon (Hawkes London) and have wondered why there
is no key for the rt thumb over the F hole. Also why not bridge to the pp
key for more ease in the lower register? If you could put the Bb in the
thumb position, it would solve my problem of bumping the third finger into
it all the time when I want to play a G.

Herb

On 10/2/06 5:27 AM, "BssnRX@-----.com> wrote:

> Are there any people playing French bassoon on the list? The reason I'm
> asking is that I'll be adding keys to one soon and I'm wondering if anybody
> else
> had had any work done like this. The French bassoon has no low E key and no RH
> thumb Bb. I came up with a system for the Bb, and the bassoonist I'm doing the
> work for has come up with something, but I haven't seen it yet. Just wondering
> if anybody else had similar work done and what sort of system they had come
> up with.
> Interesting placement of the vent keys also. They're on the side of the tenor
> joint as opposed to the back.
> TIA
> Jim
>
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