Worse, the Philadelphia Orchestra player has no idea when he’ll once again see his instrument — a 1931 German bassoon with an enviable Philadelphia pedigree, owned and played by him for half a ...

PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A heartbroken musician is asking for help finding her stolen bassoon worth more than $40,000. For Sara Schoenbeck, her beloved and beautiful wind instrument carried ...

Her interest in bassoon continued and she began studying with a teacher in Philadelphia who saw her potential and encouraged her family to buy her a Heckel bassoon.

Orchestral opposites, the lilting oboe and sonorous bassoon have been linked inextricably for centuries by merely the slimmest of bonds: a double-layered sliver of bamboo that allows the instrument… ...

When it came to the bassoon, though, “because the tube is so long, the holes would be farther apart than the fingers can reach, so instrument makers drilled the holes at an angle. They come to ...

From the high, ethereal notes that open Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to the cranky grandpa of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, the bassoon is an instrument of wonderful colour and versatility.

The bassoon has been called “ the clown of the orchestra” — but the best clowns are performers capable of doing so much more than making people laugh.

SUBMITTED BY SALISH SEA BASSOON COLLECTIVE The Salish Sea Bassoon Collective is excited to announce the launch of its Bassoon ...