Morning all, I have decided to sell my 1974 35L no. 5068 due to financial problems. This bassoon was sold to me by Maurice Allard at his home in Chatou.(As...
Hola buenas, The IDRS conference is finally coming back to Europe next year in July to Birmingham. Could one of our local "bassonists" (or even two or three)...
Greetings, As a graduate of Birmimgham Conservatoire (I assume that would be where the IDRS conference is to be held), I'd be keen to be involved in a French...
thanks for this david and also andy, i'm planning to be there, as is jerry corey and others. i'm all for the forum! when i am in touch with some french players...
Hello all, I'm a doctoral candidate in bassoon at Universite de Montreal, and I'm knee deep in researching french bassoonist Louis Letellier (who initially...
Hayley, hmmm...You know, playing a non-L instrument with with an L neck could be the source of my shoulder problem... I could be just getting old, too... ...
(Hello!) I've added the Paris Opera "Bolero" and the dies irae from Verdi "Requiem" in that John Eliot Gardiner period recording. The Panenka tribute has been...
I just received Quantum 7038 from Euravent today, and I have to say I'm impressed more than I've ever been impressed by these pieces. The orchestra's playing...
yet another review: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Mar08/Weber_QM7038.htm ... From: Allen R. Hall To: frenchbassoon@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Hello all, here is an old topic. I found some high note fingerings for the basson I wanted to share with the group, I used a fagott reed initially to find them...
This a performance by Leonard Bernstein of the Ravel G major piano concerto. The bassoonist at 2:45 has such a beautiful sound--honestly, in my opinion the...
Hi to Steve, Â Sorry, but I cannot go along with that. It produces only a bad unstable croak. Something wrong with your reed? Â Lewis [Non-text portions of...
Hello Lewis, Sorry about the croak. I have reeds from Larry Ibisch, that work with the fingering as well as several other very different ones. My wide shape...
Ok I see what you mean. It requires a couple of planks as described to me once by Bill Waterhouse. But use of teeth support to lips close up to the blade's...
Hello again, I do not mean to beat this with a stick, but the last movement of Bozza´s Piezas Breves has a high F#. I have it on youtube on the German bassoon...
Hello all, I owe an apology to anyone trying the high A5 Bb5 and B5, I was looking over some fingering charts and realized I had mis-labeled the left hand as...
Hello Antero, I thought I would let you know that the North American French Bassoon Quartet will be performing at Manchester UK IDRS on the Friday evening...
Hello everyone, Question: Does anyone ever have a problem with c4 slipping down a notch to b4? I use the standard fingering, but occasionally on a sustained...
hi jim, adding the left ring finger e-flat triller stabilizes c4, though not always easy to get to. i'd have to invent something for b-flat~c. i'll give it a...
Hola, an uneducated guess: Could this slipping from high C to high B natural have to do with the instrument having been built to a normal French diapason of...
thanks guy, we all hope that music will also bloom, and lovely sound, from this plant! i'd still like to try your cane someday. could i buy some? -chuck ... ...
... the ... and we are ... same ... 60 mm reeds. ... which I ... I stray on ... lower than in ... the year Thanks Antero, You're probably quite right. I will...
Hi, I knew it would come to this, musicians being somewhat frugal by nature. I found a recording of "Carmen" with the Bassons of the Paris Opera going to town...
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