Bassoon

From Oddwinds

The Bassoon family is mundane, because the bassoon itself is, but the family has odd members.

The family nomenclature is confusing. Besides the mundane bassoon we have:

Contrabassoon, an octave below the bassoon.

Quartfagott and Quintfagott, pitched a fourth and a fifth below the bassoon, but these terms have also been used to refer to ...

Tenoroon, pitched a fourth or a fifth above the bassoon.

Octave bassoon, an octave above the bassoon.

Of these only the contrabassoon is mundane.