Bassoon Blog

The above excerpt is the beginning of the soli for flute, oboe and bassoon in the second movement of Beethoven Symphony No. 7.   How do you...

I decided to keep a log of my progress in woodshedding  a tricky page of the Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra by Daniel Schnyder wh...

During my years at the Eastman School of Music I played on Heckel #6114 which was built in 1924. I have long suspected that it was a phen...

I began making reeds when I was 14, so I’ve had a lot of practice.  A while back I set a goal for myself of making a reed a day, after hea...

First things first- I turn on my 7" digital TV purchased from CVS.  I don't exactly watch the TV- I listen and maybe glance at it n...

My vibrato history is odd, to say the least. During high school, my teacher didn’t believe in allowing kids to either use vibrato or play t...

One of the first people I met when  I moved to Columbus was Harold Kohn, a chemist who also happened to be a symphony supporter and ama...