Hello, An information for all, Le Ménétrier is definitly closed, you can go to musicamine 7 rue d'Edinbourg 75008 Paris (100 m than rue de Madrid) There is...
merci ludovic! thank you for helping our english list-serve! i was happy to look at the website of musicamine which lists the buffet and the selmer. a juillet,...
Dear all, I am selling my Morton & Sons french bassoon on UK ebay (www.ebay.co.uk) There is a detailed description of it there. Item number is 250446997946 or...
dear colleagues, when i get to birmingham for the IDRS i will book a practice room for tuesday afternoon at 4:30 (16:30) , which will be after the opening...
Greetings to all you bassonists who will be there. I tried to tell local Spanish musicians and Finns back home about IDRS and B: ham when I myself was still...
Dear Chuck, Thanks for your email. I am at the airport right now waiting for my flight to Birmingham via Philedelphia. I didn't bring any instruments with...
Dear Chuck and other colleagues, I don't think I'm going to make it up to Birmingham for the conference. Too busy in London all week. Shame, because it's a...
Cabart French bassoon for sale. Palasander wood. Perfect condition. Original bocal. John Chance BS. Biology, MS, Genetics, Ph.D Microbiology/Biochemistry ...
Hey! Alex Salgueiro from my orchestra in A Coruna and a few of his buddies will be there (all from Spain), great guy, look him up. He has an old Boosey I think...
cheres collegues! the birmingham, uk IDRS was a grand affair and i especially enjoyed meeting british french-bassoon enthusiasts lewis and howard dann, and...
Dear Chuck and other Birmingham delegates, First, thank you Chuck for your generous gift of CDs, which are highly entertaining, and your encouraging remarks. I...
Dear all, A Russian bassoon website has many mp3 of bassoon recordings. Among those are some Allard recordings, many of them sound like radio recordings. The...
Hello Wai Kit, Yes, that's definitely "sick-bird" (Ill-eagle)... Of all the eyebrow-raising items I've penned (via the Internet), when I wrote that I thought...
Hi Wai Kit, If there is any confusion...I am reasonably sure that Laurent's Strauss recording was done on the Selmer, not the Moosmann. Also, would you send me...
Dear all, Australian Eloquence has reissued Henri Haelerts recording of 2 Vivaldi concerti (A minor and D minor I believe), recorded in 1952 and 1968. The CD...
Hola buenas from a very Spanish heatwave! Rehearsals for fiestas now begin at ten in the evening and are held outdoors. I am interested in hearing whether...
Hi Antero, I was in Birmingham and I am sorry to report that I didn't see any new reed suppliers for the French bassoon. In fact, Glotin/Neuranter didn't have...
Wai Kit et al: What did you think of the new Buffet? Did Selmer have any French bassoons there? Apologies if these questions have already been answered in...
Honest to God, I asked a Clarinet player if he'd ever been to the Buffet factory, and he replied he "didn't do" buffets; he liked to be waited on... -G. ... ...
Hi Randolph, As you probably know, I seldom play my instrument, so it was not easy for me to judge the tone and volume of the new Buffet (particularly in the...
Hello Randolph, I gave the new buffet quite a good test. I thought that it had a very nice tone but was surprisingly resistant. However, it is difficult to...
dear randolph and friends, i was interested to see wai kit's and howard's reactions to the new buffet shown in birmingham. some of you might know that i...
thanks for this wai kit- it was very easy to sample the music from this link. audin is impeccable! -chuck ________________________________ From: Wai Kit Leung...
Hi Chuck and Wai Kit, Just wondering if it's silly to ask if there were any new keys for the right thumb on the new Buffet you played? I imagine you would have...
Hola buenas a todos, As the Good Book says, there is nothing new under the sun. Just go to www. ajmusique.com, click on the photo gallery, and you will see how...
thanks for thoughts jim and more, andy, we'll see how i do with the new c# because i'm so used to the traditional, that i don't notice any inconvenience; -same...