Standard Bassoon Fingerings compiled by Susan Hess

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Key to fingering diagram

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Standard Bassoon Fingerings

compiled by

Dr. Susan Hess Lionel Hampton School of Music

University of Idaho

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Right hand thumb keys Right hand finger tone holes and keys

*Not all bassoons have this key (high d key)

Lionel Hampton School of Music University of Idaho

PO Box 444015 Moscow, ID 83844-4015

208.885.6231 208.885. 54 (fax)

shess@uidaho.edu www.class.uidaho.edu/uibassoon

Left hand finger tone holes and keysLeft hand thumb keys