Bassoon

When translating into English, the German word for "bassoon" is a stumbling block.

Are you still playing the bassoon?

Tom practices playing the bassoon every day.

Tom certainly gets a nice sound out of that old bassoon.

It's very hard to play Vivaldi's bassoon concertos on the saxophone.

I know someone who can play the bassoon.

I don't play the bassoon as much as I used to.

I had no idea you knew how to play the bassoon.

Tom might know how to play the bassoon.

Vivaldi wrote a lot of music for the bassoon.

Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.

The most convenient and natural order is, perhaps, the following: the upper staff may have the flute-part, because it has the highest notes, and, therefore, requires most room above the staff; then follow the parts for the hautboys, clarinets, horns, bassoons, tromboni, trumpets, and drums; the upper half of the page thus containing the wind-instruments: the lower half belongs to the violins, viola, voices, violoncello, and double base.

After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.