Martha Malkiewicz never got her stolen contrabassoon back. But this weekend, in a pair of classics concerts, the musician with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra started over with the next best thing: ...

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Introductory description, etymology and origins -- Precursors of the bassoon in Praetorius and Mersenne and surviving specimens -- The bassoon in other reference books from the late seventeenth ...

*A freak of an instrument, made to create a sensation in 1739 – and the original model still exists, and it's playable. https://youtu.be/rLYRfHjZIy8 Orchestra of ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

It might be the oldest new instrument to arrive in Australia this year. It's definitely the longest. The contrabassoon Sydney's Pinchgut Opera took delivery of on Friday is 2.7 metres long, and ...

Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter’s work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could ...