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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2006/10
From: Michel Bettez <michelbt@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] French bassoon
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:19:51 -0400
Dear Herb,
I think the latest French system bassoons have (finally) a right thumb Bb!!!
(in addition to the third finger Bb)
And the contrebassons too!
I was in Marseille last spring and had to play contrabassoon in one piece.
The only instrument we could find was a French system contrebasson.
I was happy to find a right thumb Bb on that contrebasson.
That made my life a little simpler...
Regards,
Michel
herb fawcett wrote:
> 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
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