The Bassoon-Family Fingering Companion

An Annotated Index of Fingerings for Instruments in the Bassoon Family
Contained in English Wind Periodicals and Other Select Publications with Additional Material

By Terry B. Ewell
©1996-2011 by Terry B. Ewell and the International Double Reed Society. All Rights Reserved.

Please read these files before proceeding with the indexes.

• **What’s New ** (text)
• Preface–START HERE (text)
• Ascii fingering representation (text and pictures)
• Acknowledgements (text)

Standard German System Bassoon Fingerings and Trills (pdf) by Terry B. Ewell

The Bassoon-Family Fingering Charts

• Heckel-system (German) bassoon
  • Heckel bassoon key and hole names (picture)
  • Suggested fingerings for musical passages (index)
  • Fingerings by note name (index)
  • Fingerings for trills and shakes (index)
  • Fingerings for pianissimo (text)
  • Fingerings for microtones (index)
  • Fingerings for multiphonics (index)
  • Fingerings for harmonics (index)
  • Select bibliography (text)
• Buffet-system (French) bassoon
  • Suggested fingerings for musical passages (index)
  • Fingerings by note name (index)
  • Fingerings for trills and shakes (index)
  • Select bibliography (text)
• Modern non-standard bassoons
  • Select bibliography (text)
• Historical bassoon fingering tables
  • Historical bassoon fingering tables (index)
  • Select bibliography for bassoon and contrabassoon (text)
• Contrabassoon
  • Suggested German-system fingerings for musical passages (index)
  • German-system and French-system fingerings by note name (index)
  • German-system fingerings for trills and shakes (index)
  • Select bibliography (text)
• Other Double Reeds
  • Ophicleïde (index)
  • Sarrusophone (index)
  • Select bibliography (text)