Biography of the basement

It is believed that the name of this instrument comes from the Italian word Fagotto, which in translation means "knot, bundle, knit." And in fact, if the tool is disassembled, you get something reminiscent of a bundle of firewood. The total length of the basket is 2.5 meters, in counterfeit - 5 meters. The tool weighs about 3 kg. The birth of a new musical instrument who exactly first invented the basket is unknown, but the homeland of the instrument is considered Italy of the 17th century.

Its ancestor is called an ancient bombard - a bass instrument of the pagan family. The basket was different from the bombard, the tube was divided into several parts as a result of which the tool became easier to make and transferred. For the better, the sound also changed, at first the basket was called Dulzian, translated "gentle, sweet." It was a long, bent tube on which the valve system is located.

The first basket was equipped with three valves. Later in the 18th century there were five of them. The weight of the tool was approximately three kilograms.

The size of the pipe in a detailed form is more than two and a half meters in length. The counterfagot has even more - about five meters. The instrument improvement was first used to strengthen, duplicate bass voices. Only since the 17th century, he begins to play an independent role. At this time, italian composers Byazjo Marini, Dario Castello and others write to him at this time. At the beginning of the 19th century, Jean-Nicol Savarr proposed to the musical world to the baskets, which had eleven valves.

A little later, two masters from France: F. Treber and A. Buff improved and complemented this option. It was they, in the year in Bibrich, who founded an enterprise for the manufacture of wind instruments. In the year, the Almenreder created a basket with seventeen valves. This model has become the basic in the production of faculties by Haeckel, which became the leader in the production of these musical instruments.

Until this moment, the baskets of Austrian and French masters were widespread. From birth to date, there are three types of basins: quartfagot, basbotino, counterfagot. Modern symphonic orchestras still continue to use counterfagot in their speeches. The place of the basket in the history of Germany in the 18th century was the instrument at the peak of popularity.

The sounds of the basket in church choirs emphasized the sound of the voice. In the works of the German composer Rainhard Kaiser, the instrument receives its parties as part of an opera orchestra. The instrument received solo batches in the works of F. Haydn and V. Mozart, especially the b-dur concert, written by Mozart in the year, sounds in the b-dur concert. He soloes in the works of I.

Bizet in Carmen, at P. Glinka in Ruslan and Lyudmila. Michael Rabronaucer is a jazz musician, one of the few who in his concerts began to perform parties on the faculty. Now the tool can be heard at concerts of symphonic, wind orchestras. In addition, he can solo or play in the ensemble.