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 Soprano and tenor dulcians. Dulcians 
            or curtals are the immediate ancestor of the bassoon. They are played 
            with a double-reed, and like most Renaissance instruments, they come 
            in a complete family of different sized instruments. They are built 
            with characteristic U-shaped bore of the bassoon, as opposed to a 
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