Guntram Wolf Fg 4 "Tiger" quart bassoon in F
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The quart bassoon, also known as the "tenoroon", was able to survive sporadically until the 19th century - e.g. in military music. There is solo and ensemble literature from the 18th century, as well as modern compositions (written especially for our instruments). It sounds a fourth higher than the normal bassoon. It is also suitable as a children's bassoon for early instrumental instruction and also especially well for wind band music, because played in treble clef, Bb voices can be blown untransposed. In bass clef (transposed) modern bassoon fingerings apply.
Our bassoonini are made of sycamore maple with natural rubber lining, as is usual for bassoons. With a light embouchure with a normal bassoon reed, they are characterized by an even response with a full sound from the lowest to the highest notes. The tuning is stable in all registers with normal bassoon fingering (models Fg 4 and Fg 5). Due to our many years of experience in building small bassoons, we have succeeded in developing a new generation of bassottini with perfect playing characteristics, which is also constantly being improved in exchange with teachers and students. The resulting early introduction to bassoon playing (at the age of approx. 5 years) has meanwhile become widely established and proven successful.
The Fg 4 model is also available in the Fg 4 plus / Fg 4 plus "Tiger" version with a complete piano mechanism.
Our bassoonini can be used in many different ways:
- as an alto and tenor instrument in an ensemble
- as a timbre in wind band music
- as bass in recorder groups
- as a solo instrument for historical and modern literature
- as a musical effect - optical and acoustic
- and of course as a children's instrument for early instrumental instruction
(the youngest quint bassoon student we know was 3 1/2 years old)
Because of increasing nickel allergies, our machine heads are generally silver-plated to a high gloss.
