Which instrument is taller, a bassoon or a cor anglais?

griffinj

Judging from these pictures, I would say the bassoon is larger. http://www.enfieldartssupportservice.org.uk/bassoon.htm http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/music/orchestra/coranglais.htm Dec 23 04, 10:07 PM

Arpeggionist

The bassoon is indeed a larger (and taller) instrument, with tubing about three times the length of the English horn (the cor anglais). Indeed, the latter instrument is quite easy to hold and play while walking around, whereas the bassoon is a bulky instrument which one must sit down to play. Dec 24 04, 3:59 AM

bassoonist13

The cor anglais is also known as the English horn. There are four members of the double reed family. They are the bassoon, the contrabassoon, the oboe, and the English horn (or cor anglais). In order they go contrabassoon being the largest, bassoon, English horn, and oboe being the smallest. However, even the bassoon is considerably larger than the English horn, about 5 - 10 times bigger, actually. Perhaps even more. Therefore, the bassoon is larger than the cor anglais by a landslide! Jun 26 06, 12:43 PM