Bassoon Blog

I strongly suspect that professional bassoonists spend more time consulting fingering charts (for bassoon!) than any other professional inst...

Respighi and his wife Elsa in the garden of their idyllic Roman villa Italian post-Romantic composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is ...

  Last night I had the privilege of adjudicating the final round of the Columbus Symphony Young Musicians Concerto Competition 2014.   E...

 Today is the day to begin numbering your reeds at 1 again.  I highly recommend this easy method of keeping track of the number of reeds ...

Every once in a while I find myself teaching a high school bassoonist to make reeds.   I usually have my students use cane which is already ...

The Bassoon Bureau is a new online shop selling bassoon quartet arrangements as digital downloads.  In order to kickstart the business, own...