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Fingering Charts

German System

• Artley Bassoon Fingering Chart
• Bassoon Family Fingerings, Terry Ewell
• Bassoon Instruction, WD Davis
• Fingering Chart, David Carroll
• Fingering Chart, Bruce Hammel
• Fingering Chart, Susan Hess
• Interactive Bassoon Fingering Trainer
• Not-Quite-Harmonic Overblowing of the Bassoon, James B. Kopp
• Let's Play Bassoon, Fox Products
• Pocket Musician (for PDA) Bassoon Fingerings
• Woodwind Fingering Guide

French System

• The French Bassoon, Gerald Corey
• Buffet Bassoon Fingerings

Contrabassoon

• Contrabassoon Fingering Chart, Chip Owen
• Contrabassoon Fingering Chart, Marius Piard
• Contra Upgrade, Allen Savedoff
• The Evolving Contra, Allen Savedoff

Baroque Bassoon

• Baroque Bassoon Fingerings by Maker
• The Denner Bassoon, Eric Moulder and Tony Millyard
• The Rottenburgh Bassoon, Eric Moulder and Tony Millyard

Dulcian

• Dulcian Fingerings - Hans Mons

Shawm

• Shawm Fingerings - Hans Mons

Bassoon and Contra Fingerings

Earliest Instruments to the Present
Fingerings for the earliest bassoon, which was developed in the late 1650s into the 1700s during the Baroque Period, are listed here as well as fingerings for its precursors, the dulcian and the shawm.

In the 1880s two schools of bassoon-making arose: the French school under Buffet and the German school under Heckel. Each had it own solutions to tone production, fingering and intonation. Both sets of fingerings are included here along with those for the contrabassoon.