I made my first printable blank chart for modern bassoon, as a convenient way to quickly and legibly 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. From there, I added blank charts for contrabassoon and multiple kinds of Baroque bassoon. Then over the years, as I’ve explored various new-to-me historical bassoons and other instruments, I’ve made versions to fit some of those instruments, as well.
On all of them, the staves are completely empty so that you can write notes in any clef. The fingering diagrams themselves are either from or derived from Bret Pimentel’s excellent Fingering Diagram Builder.
Modern Bassoon Family
German Bassoon
A basic professional keywork diagram for what we think of as the “regular” 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
This is for a basic 4‑keyed Baroque bassoon (low B‑flat, low D, F, A‑flat)
5‑key Baroque (LT)
For Baroque bassoons with an E‑flat key for the left thumb
5‑key Baroque (L4)
For Baroque bassoons with an E‑flat key for the left little finger
7‑key Classical (Ozi)
Based on the “Basson moderne” from Etienne Ozi’s 1787 Nouvelle méthode de basson
9‑key Romantic (Küffner)
Based on the fingering chart from Joseph Küffner’s 1829 Principes élémentaires de la musique et gamme de basson…
13-key Romantic (Savary)
This is for a particular 1843 bassoon by Jean-Nicolas Savary that may have originally had another key or two
18-key Romantic (Almenräder)
Based on the fingering chart from Carl Almenräder’s 1843 Die Kunst des Fagottblasens oder Vollständige theoretisch praktische Fagottschule
19-key Romantic (Buffet)
I made this for my Buffet, which was made in 1925, but has antiquated keywork that’s more like an instrument from the late 19th century
20-key Romantic (Bourdeau)
Very similar to the 19-key Buffet chart above, this matches the keywork on an undated fingering chart by Eugène Bourdeau
Miscellaneous Instruments
2‑key Serpent
The serpent is an early wind instrument with a brass-style cup mouthpiece and simple woodwind-style open-holed fingering.
Octavin
The octavin is an obscure late 19th century single-reed instrument that sounds like a cross between an oboe and a soprano saxophone, and looks vaguely like the boot joint of a bassoon.