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.

Poor, poor bassoon. No one understands you. They don’t appreciate your double reeds and they’re intimidated by your stature. To be fair, it isn’t every day that someone gets serenaded by a woodwind ...

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 ...

SEATTLE - Keith Bowen is the guy to call when you need your bocal socket replaced. If you'd like a thumb whisper key spatula, your tenons restrung, your tone holes refinished, look no further. One of ...

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 ...

The bassoon is a double-reed wind instrument and serves as the “bass voice” of the woodwind section of the orchestra. Composers since the 1700s have been writing pieces specifically for the instrument ...