Labels:text | music | musical instrument | oboe OCR: {flaster Orchestrator Strauss's Orchestra "The bassoons and their lower ww auxiliary, the contrabasssoon, are double reed instruments. As the lowest members of the woodwinds, bassoons usually play the bass line. Pitched quite a bit lower than the other woodwinds, they share about the same range as the cellos, whom they frequently double. The contrabassoon, some- times called the "grandfather" of the orchestra, is pitched a full octave below the bassoon. Bassoon Contra- bassoon Quit 2 G Contents Retrace A Chapters Find V 30 of 95