Bassoon Stuff Once again, it’s very late and insomnia is setting my schedule for me so I thought I’d create an entry on bassoons. After all, I haven’t chatted much about music lately and thought it might be fun to do a mini-series on the topic. I got a bassoon from my family about 15 years ago and have never been able to find anything except for a lone serial number on the u-joint. The number is 2861 and as much as I’d hope that it’s a pre-3000 HeckelI highly doubt it. After the loss of World War I, the multi-national state of Austria-Hungary, of which Bohemia was a part, broke up into a number of national states. The Bohemian part of the 'music-belt', represented by the chief cities of Graslitz and Schonbach, belonged to the newly-founded Czechoslovak Republic. Linton makes two models of plastic bassoons (the upper model includes a high D key) and seven models of plastic oboes. Both bassoon models have the covered 3rd finger C key making them easier to play by younger bassoonists with smaller hands. Note: Sadly, due to illness, Linton has closed their doors and they will no longer be building instruments. Fox Products Corporation is an American manufacturer of bassoons, contrabassoons, oboes and English horns. The founder of the company, Hugo Fox, was an American bassoonist. In his time as principal bassoon of the Chicago Symphony (1922-49), he conceptualized the possibility of world-class bassoons made in the United States.
Linton Bassoon Serial Numbers
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