http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Never before had the instrument been required to produce such high notes.Well, maybe it is just me but Stravinsky's top note in the opening bars is a C, whereas the bassoon tune in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, as the guests are leaving the christmas party (Act I, Scene 6), reaches up to the G. he is considerably higher; traditionally that tune would have been handled by a flute.
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