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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2006/10

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] French bassoon
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:40:52 -0400

Thanks for the note, Michel. I am in no way a bassoniste, but I do have the
one I am trying to play a little. It reminds me how hard it is to learn any
bassoon when the instrument is not good.
Herb

On 10/2/06 3:19 PM, "Michel Bettez" <michelbt@-----.ca> wrote:

> 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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