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271: 25: 391: 255:, producing woodwind instruments. He nevertheless continued to work with Schott as a proof reader, and as a tubing supplier. In 1843 he produced a comprehensive teaching manual for his 17-key bassoon which had a chromatic range of 4 octaves. After Almenräder's death in 1843 his business partner, Heckel continued the manufacturing business. 231:, response, and technical ease of playing by means of augmenting and rearranging the keywork; subsequent articles further developed his ideas. Working at the Schott factory gave him the means to construct and test instruments according to these new designs, the results of which were published in 258:
Following several further upgrades today's German Almenräder-Heckel bassoon comes with between 25 and 27 keys. It has spread far beyond German speaking central Europe, defining during the twentieth century the international standards for the instrument.
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as a bassoonist. He was now working seriously on a year-long project to develop a technically improved bassoon featuring moving keys and an improved level of balance across the tonal range. By 1819 he had temporarily moved down river to
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Almenräder's improvements to the bassoon began with an 1823 treatise in which he described ways of improving
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in 1812 where by 1814 he was also obtaining solo work. He studied composition with
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himself requested one of the newly made instruments after hearing of the papers.
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where he joined his brothers in their workshop which focused on producing
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In 1831 Almenräder started his own factory along with partner
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owes a great deal to Almenräder, who, assisted by the German
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German bassoonist, inventor and composer (1786–1843)
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