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.

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 ...

Consider the bassoon. Across its six sections that come apart, it has about 19 holes (depending on the model) and more than ...

A weekend celebration of the bassoon on the Indiana University campus was capped Saturday evening with an Auer Hall Bassoon Day 2018 program featuring a dozen bassoons (I counted them and very much ...

With his many critically acclaimed award-winning recordings and live performances, Daniel Smith is the most recorded bassoon soloist in the world, with a repertoire spanning music from jazz to ...

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 ...