C#3. Standard. Corey, Gerald. "How to Make the French Bassoon `Work.'" The Journal of the International Double Reed Society 1 (May 1973): 38.

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x x x | o o o
    w

C#3. Allard, Maurice. Le Basson: Methode de basson (Paris: Gèrard Billaudot, 1975), p. 28. For fast passages.

    W
x x o | x o o

C#3. Corey, Gerald. "How to Make the French Bassoon `Work.'" The Journal of the International Double Reed Society 1 (May 1973): 38. "I add VI [R. H. G key] to make the tone less nasal."

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x x x | o o x
    w

C#3. James, Cecil. Unpublished chart. For fast and chromatic passages:

    W
x x o | x o o Ab

C#3. Klimko, Ronald. In Apfelstadt, Marc and Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practice, Teaching Materials, Techniques and Methods. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1993, p. 60.

     C# W
x  x  x  | o o x F


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