When Nicole Buetti first picked up the bassoon, it was supposed to be a not-so-secret weapon in woodwind-on-woodwind combat.

That's the name of a new album of baroque chamber music from the Irish bassoonist Peter Whelan and Ensemble Marsyas. There is no exclamation mark, no hint of irony. The cover art shows an elegant 18th ...

The bassoon is a complex musical instrument. It’s a horn with six parts called bocal, boot, bell, bore, joint and reed. Bassoon history goes back earlier than the mid-16th century but it’s being ...

" 'Uh oh — things are going comically awry!' That's the way I think it is most often used in television and movies," says Eileen Reynolds, who has played the bassoon since elementary school. "When I ...

Five ideas for family fun this weekend: Peter, Wolf and Bassoon: Peter tries to elude that pesky wolf once more in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra’s annual production of Prokofiev’s classic ...

The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...

Much like a Stradivarius is to the violin world, a Heckel is considered one of the gold standards in bassoons. So when Laine Bryce decided to sell her Heckel upon retirement after 26 years of playing ...

It's not the instrument young people usually choose to become musicians. But for Donovan Tong it has opened up worlds of possibilities. I started playing the bassoon, the most wonderful instrument I ...

FRANK ZAPPA once wrote, “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.... It’s a great noise -- nothing else makes ...