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Bassoon Reed Solutions
Remember when adjusting your reeds to make small changes at a time before testing it again. You can always scrape more cane off but you can't add it back on! Soak your reeds for at least five minutes before making adjustments. When scraping or sanding your reeds don't forget to use a plaque to...
Helping your Child Practise
Helping Your Child Practise A note to parents of the young bassoon player. As a parent of the budding bassoonist you play a key role in helping them make rapid progress. After all you have already found a bassoon teacher, paid for the books, the reeds, the hire or even purchase of the...
How to Practise the Bassoon
Never go past your concentration point. It’s better to do half an hour of good, worthwhile practice, than an hour of practice when you’ve stopped concentrating. 50% of your practice should be technique. Scales and studies, thinking about the purpose of them, and still playing them...
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Here are two of my favourite bassoonists: http://www.saxtonrose.com/ Andrea Zucco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTfDpRhz_jY
The Bassoon Brothers
I recommend listening to The Bassoon Brothers. They are a quartet composed of members from the Oregon Symphony bassoon section.
The Bassoon
"The Bassoon, with all it's quality of universal humanity, is capable of expressing in purest sound all the emotions we express but crudely in words." - Martha Kingdon Ward (from 'Mozart and the Bassoon', Music & Letters, 1949)
'Why did you choose the bassoon??'. . .
. . . a common question often asked of bassoonists. In many cases, like mine, the answer is ‘We didn’t!’ It was chosen for us by a keen teacher with a spare school instrument because of our long fingers! A keen recorder player at primary school, I decided very early on that the...