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no, you misunderstood me... when I say "no 'a due' writing" I mean no unisons of the same instrument for prolonged periods of time. ie: no whole phrases played in unison by two flutes.
having your bassoons in octaves would be a perfectly normal way of going about it. the octaves would reinforce upper partials. and I'm sure that there are moments in there where the bassoons migth have played 5ths or other intervals as well... or the first bassoon might have gone up into "melodic territory" while the 2nd bassoon did the bass with, for example, the 2nd clarinet.
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