Bassoon Blog

If you are a student or amateur musician who is playing in an orchestra and no one has advised you on the unofficial "rules" of or...

These days many bassoonists forgo the burden of purchasing and maintaining a gouger, a profiler and a shaper, especially since there are sev...

Rhythmic (or rhythmical) fingering is a concept I rarely hear about these days, yet during my student years at the Eastman School of Music I...

Shortly after starting my job with the Columbus Symphony, someone contacted me to ask if I taught bassoon lessons.  I wasn't sure how to...

This week the Columbus Symphony is performing a program of exotic masterpieces as part of its Russian Winter Festival. This is the progr...

Tchaikowsky's epic Manfred Symphony (1885) stands out in numerous ways.  It is a multi-movement romantic symphonic poem rather than a nu...

I'd say the bassoon is a bit unusual in that it's possible (although certainly sub-optimal ) for its players to ignore its mainte...