The Structure of the Bassoon
Bonus Experiment
Moving beads with sound pressure
If you hold your hand up to the bell, you can feel the sound pressure as vibrations. Those vibrations become stronger as the pitch of the sound being produced becomes lower. As the pitch becomes lower the tone holes are closed one after another, so the sound pressure produced at the bell increases. Let's watch how beads placed near the tip of the bell respond to this phenomenon.
Musical Instrument Guide : Bassoon Contents
Structure
- What Kind of Musical Instrument is a Bassoon?
- A Long Tube that can be Separated
- The Bocal and its Various Functions
- Unique Features of the bassoon, and How to Play
- [Experiment1]Comparing the Sound of Tone Holes cut Obliquely and Perpendicular
- [Experiment2]Encasing the Bore in Various Materials
- Bonus Experiment
How to Play
How the Instrument is Made
Choosing an Instrument
Trivia
- An Instrument that is Sensitive to Humidity
- Sounds from water in the U-tube?
- There's a needle in the bocal?!
- Comments by conductors caused popularity to tumble?
- Bassoon classics - Chamber music works
- Bassoon classics - Concertos
- Is the "contra-fagotto" a contrabassoon?
- What is the best tool to file a reed?