Assertion: bassoon | /r/HasAspect | range
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text: This stereotype is too limiting however, as the bassoon has incredible lyrical, vocal qualities and a range spanning three and a half octaves (requiring three clefs to notate: bass, tenor and treble), making it an extremely flexible instrument.
text: For the bassoon, which has a range that extends over three octaves, a musical score that is usually written on the treble clef would soon extend into horizontal "ledger lines" for high-pitched notes, and become difficult to read, so is instead usually transposed onto the C clef.
text: Bassoons had a range that could stand up against the lowest members of the string family, so composers who wanted bass notes out of a woodwind instrument now had something to work with.