Editing Contrabassoon (section)

=== Precursors ===
Precursors to the contrabassoon are documented as early as 1590 in Austria and Germany, at a time when the growing popularity of doubling the bass line led to the development of lower-pitched dulcians. Examples of these low-pitched dulcians include the octavebass, the quintfagott, and the quartfagott.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Bassoon|last=Kopp|first=James|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2012|isbn=978-0-300-11829-2|location=New Haven and London|pages=188–191}}</ref> There is evidence that a contrafagott was used in Frankfurt in 1626.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=The Bassoon and Contrabassoon|last=Langwill|first=Lyndesay|publisher=Ernest Benn Limited|year=1975|isbn=0 510-36501-9|location=Great Britain|pages=113}}</ref> Baroque precursors to the contrabassoon developed in France in the 1680s, and later in England in the 1690s, independent of the dulcian developments in Austria and Germany during the previous century.<ref name=":0" />