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RE: transposing instruments It's not just a "convenient for the players" moment. It's also because changing over to non-transposing instruments would create a
by BeFlatXIII 5y ago
RE: transposing instruments
It's not just a "convenient for the players" moment. It's also because changing over to non-transposing instruments would create a generation-long transition period of broken pedagogy. It's the same reason oboe fingerings are so nonsensical. It's backwards compatibility to preserve previous fingerings that makes the new fingerings awkward and arbitrary.
- natechols 5y agoAs a software developer, I think of bassoon fingerings as a classic example of "technical debt", and also the kind of design that if someone thought it up de novo, the only appropriate response would be "you're fired."