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To: epicure who wrote (146)	3/5/2002 10:35:15 PM
From: Annette	Respond to of 207

small hands? Model 51 foxproducts.com The first Fox bassoon I bought as a student was the Model 220 made of sugar maple..they now make it with Black Maple .... Woods: Mountain Maple (Berg Ahorn) from Yugoslavia is the most popular wood. It is of intermediate specific gravity and its warm tone quality places it comfortably in the middle of the respected bassoon characteristics. Its main weakness is its relatively high cost, which limits its use to more expensive instruments. It is the standard of all our professional models. Black Maple comes from North America, and derives its original reference in bassoon history to the experiments by Karl Almenrader in the early 1800's. It is heavier than Mountain maple, resulting in stronger projection with slightly less flexibility. When combined with certain reeds and air columns, the tone quality can be quite lovely, and those who prefer it are usually first chair players. Big Leaf Maple is the lightest of the woods we use, resulting in the most flexible instruments. It is preferred for second chair orchestral parts because of the ease with which it blends with the other instruments. Red Maple is a less expensive cousin to Mountain Maple, having a slightly coarser grain, but similar performance characteristics. Sugar Maple is the most durable of the woods. It was the primary choice of our earlier professional instruments, and it still is used in models that are popular with public schools. Its tone quality is slightly brighter than the other woods, and it combines most favorably with the darker qualities of the long bore design, It has excellent projection but is somewhat less flexible than Mountain Maple. Which one do I play on? The Model 1 with all the bells and whistles. I play long bore and am a BIG fan of long bore bassoons. Their tuning is fantastic. Mine is flexible and very warm sounding, and projects just fine. You will see that Fox bassoons are snapped up quickly when they show up on EBAY. NEVER NEVER buy the cheap Chinese bassoons (Lark brand) Peee Yeeeeeeeeeeeew. German, American or Canadian are best.