Fw: The relationship between bassoon and quartertones

I found this in the Usenet news group "rec.music.compose". Any bassoon
players here want to answer this?

"Arsalane Nabahi" <arsou@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:<0XKF5.326485$Gh.9619396@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> Halleu
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> I need a little help from a book... but here is like a book !
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> Can the bassoon play quartertones easily ? And more specifically, can it
> alter all of it's A and D a quartertone down ?
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> Thanks
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> Arsalane Nabahi
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