At 9:50 PM -0400 6/23/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
The French bn. is now limited to France, and is losing ground even there. Formerly it was used in a number of other countries, notably Italy and, I think, Russia.
I have one (and no, I don't play!) allegedly made for or on the advice of the principal bassoonist of the Boston Symphony some years back, perhaps in the 1920s.
And for anyone wondering how to get Xenakis's f''s on a German bassoon, the answer is to bite the reed. I can even get a g'' that way, and have written it--with explicit instructions to bite the reed.
Works for the double high C on clarinet, too! John -- Prof. John R. Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
