Although I’ve set out all of my basic fingerings in my fingering charts, from time to time I find myself wanting to make note of an easier way to produce a particular trill, special fingerings for harmonics or multiphonics, or a new alternate fingering I’ve learned from a colleague. To make this easier, I whipped up a printable blank fingering chart that makes it easy to jot down a fingering quickly and legibly. The staves are completely empty so that you can write notes in any clef, and the blank fingering diagrams are courtesy of Bret Pimentel’s Fingering Diagram Builder.
Modern Bassoon Family
Bassoon
A basic professional keywork diagram for German bassoon (Püchner, Fox, Heckel, etc.), without extra trill keys or alternates
Contrabassoon
A fairly middle-of-the-road keywork set-up
French Bassoon
Basic modern professional Buffet-style keywork
Historical Bassoons
Dulcian
For your basic 2‑keyed dulcian/curtal
4‑key Baroque Bassoon
This is for a basic 4‑keyed Baroque bassoon (low B‑flat, low D, F, A‑flat)
5‑key Baroque Bassoon (French)
For Baroque bassoons with an E‑flat key for the left thumb
5‑key Baroque Bassoon (German)
For Baroque bassoons with an E‑flat key for the left little finger
7‑Key Classical (Grenser)
Modeled on my Cronin Grenser, which has two wing keys
7‑key Classical (Ozi)
This keywork layout matches the “Basson moderne” from Etienne Ozi’s 1787 Nouvelle méthode de basson
13-key Romantic (Savary)
This is for a particular 1843 Savary bassoon that may have originally had another key or two
19-key Romantic (Buffet)
I made this for my 1925 Buffet, which has fairly antiquated keyword for the time.
Miscellaneous Instruments
2‑key Serpent
Stuff
Octavin
“What’s an octavin?” you might ask. The short answer is that it’s an obscure late 19th century single-reed instrument.