Contra Bassoon     

      The Contra fagotto, Conjointly Called The Bass Double-Reed Instrument Or Contra bassoon, Could Be A Larger Version Of The Double-Reed Instrument, Sounding Associate In Nursing Octave Lower. Its Technique Is Analogous to Its Smaller Relation, With Many Notable Variations.

       The First Helpful Contra fagotto, Or Contra bassoon, Sounding An Octave Not Up To The Double-Reed Instrument and Far Used In Giant Scores, Was Developed In Vienna And Used Often By The Classical Composers. The Fashionable contra fagotto Follows Heckel’s Style Of Roughly 1870, With The Conduit Doubled Back Fourfold And Infrequently with A Metal Bell That Points Downward.