A Quick Question..

Hey all,

I'm finally going to write my very first song ever! I decided it to be a Bassoon Quartet, and probably going to have the orchestra (probably just strings) play a very light pizzicato bass line underneath it.

Okay so while setting up the first two instruments, I accidentally clicked on 'english horn' instead of Bassoon.

Now, instead of writing the first segment of it and finding out that it is a bad idea, start over, I thought I would get some advice from more experienced composers.

My question is, would it sound nice to have 3 bassoons and an English Horn, or would it make it sound to buzzy? I know that the English Horn is closely related to the Oboe, and the Oboe sounds kinda squeaky, so I don't want to have a nice slow movement sound bad because of it.

Thanks for reading,

oh and wish me luck on my first piece =P

-Smartyy!

Why don't you just change the instrument or midi patch? Or better yet, make one of those bassoons a contra?

I would but Rosegarden's big flaw is I can't change instruments without deleting the whole piece that the instrument that I want to change.

So If i wanted to change the English Horn to Contra, I would first have to delete the english horn. :(

However, I do believe there is a Copy and Paste Function that I could use..

hmmmmm

-Smartyy!

Well, I think that if you were initially planning to write a piece for four bassoons, you shouldn't change your plans because the program is playing a english horn instead of a bassoon. Print the Englisch horn part, then delete that voice and re-write it for bassoon. At least, that' s what I would do. :)

Wouldn't it be relatively trivial to add a new staff, cut and paste the old part into the new staff, and delete the old staff?