"Though there are many bassoonists that play contrabassoon only grudgingly, Richard Bobo relishes the contrabassoon and considers himself equally a contrabassoonist and bassoonist." That's how Jason ...

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 ...

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 ...

An instrument that went missing almost six years ago from Kleinhans Music Hall is home again, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announced Friday. A contrabassoon – a woodwind instrument with a sound ...