Machine Design or Mechanical Design. This is the series of articles on Machine Design or Mechanical Design. Machine design and drawing are very important subjects of mechanical engineering. No produce can be manufactured without designing it.
Bassoons are usually made from maple wood. Like the oboe the bassoon is played with a double reed. To make a sound the player blows through the double reed which is attached to a crook leading into the main body of the instrument. Bassoon players change the pitch of the notes by pressing different combinations of keys.
With this mechanism playing the flute became much easier and the flute did sound much better. Flautists and orchestras were very happy with the invention by Boehm. We still play on flutes made with the mechanism invented by Boehm. Only nowadays flutes are not so often made of wood as they used to be.here came extra holes and keys on the flute to get rid of the fork fingerings. Around 1775 the flute had four keys: d sharp (already existed), b flat key, g sharp key and f key. Eventually more and more keys were added to the flute, but there still wasn't a good system for the keys.