Got a Bassoon sitting around?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:15 pm

Just a shot in the dark here, but does anyone have a bassoon sitting around collecting dust that they'd like to sell? My wife is a former oboist who had to quit because of severe headaches. She's always had a hankering to try bassoon, with it's lower wind pressure (and you thought some whistles had a lot of back pressure?). If you hear of any, please let me know. Thanks.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:06 pm

The bassoon player in our community orchestra got a rebuilt bassoon here-

http://www.wichitaband.com/used.html#bassoon

It came with a two year warranty and she is very happy with it. The wood is gorgeous.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:38 am

Oh, darn. Bad timing. I just threw two of them out last week.

djm

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:40 am

A few years ago, after listening to Richard Stolzman play the clarinet on CD's that I own, I decided that I wanted to play the clarinet. However, after acquiring a reasonably nice clarinet to begin my studies, I found that the back pressure resulting from the clarinet embouchure caused me to have headaches and my blood pressure to rise. Long before I began to sound anything like Stolzman I decided to give up the clarinet. The flute embouchure with very low back pressure seems much more to my liking.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:49 pm

Doug_Tipple wrote:A few years ago, after listening to Richard Stolzman play the clarinet on CD's that I own, I decided that I wanted to play the clarinet. However, after acquiring a reasonably nice clarinet to begin my studies, I found that the back pressure resulting from the clarinet embouchure caused me to have headaches and my blood pressure to rise. Long before I began to sound anything like Stolzman I decided to give up the clarinet. The flute embouchure with very low back pressure seems much more to my liking.

Isn't it strange how things effect folks differently?
It had never occurred to me that the clarinet even has any back pressure.
But years of playing it did wreck havoc with my "bite". (another excuse to play oboe

- don't want to mess up all that dental work )

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:41 pm

brewerpaul wrote:and you thought some whistles had a lot of back pressure?

I played Trumpet all throughout high school - it has a little back pressure as well but not like the Oboe. And some whistle players have the nerve to complain about backpressure - I think that falls in the k'vetching category.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:13 pm

Daniel_Bingamon wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:and you thought some whistles had a lot of back pressure?
I played Trumpet all throughout high school - it has a little back pressure as well but not like the Oboe. And some whistle players have the nerve to complain about backpressure - I think that falls in the k'vetching category.

I distinctly remember attending a recital by a professor of trumpet at the Interlochen School of Music summer program in Michigan. The middle-aged professor's face became so red that I was worried about whether he was going to be able to finish the program. I don't play the trumpet, but I would say that the Dizzy Gillespie expanded cheeks are the result of more than a little back pressure. And these guys are pros.

MagicSailor · Post by **MagicSailor** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:53 pm

Hi

Doug_Tipple wrote:I don't play the trumpet, but I would say that the Dizzy Gillespie expanded cheeks are the result of more than a little back pressure. And these guys are pros.

While Dizzy's playing is legendary, I would say that his expanded cheeks were probably more a result of not learning right in the first place.

And... If you still have that clarinet, I'm in the market for a reasonably good clarinet. I lost my much beloved Noblet Artist in an accident two years ago (along with everything else I owned). I bought a new Palmer plastic clarinet a year ago as it was all I could afford, but it is a horrid piece of machinery, not even in tune with itself. A new Noblet Artist is more than $1000, way out of my budget for the moment. I actually pulled the Palmer out today, but don't have much patience with it. I need a better instrument to inspire me to start playing again.

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kkrell · Post by **kkrell** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:23 am

djm wrote:Oh, darn. Bad timing. I just threw two of them out last week.

djm

Would have been one for Paul's wife, and one for me. I played a bassoon in college. Liked it. I'm a fan of Gryphon.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:38 am

<A TARGET="NEW" HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=0gg8-b9PbSA">This one?</A>

djm

kkrell · Post by **kkrell** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:45 pm

djm wrote:<A TARGET="NEW" HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=0gg8-b9PbSA">This one?</A>

djm

Them's the folks. Perhaps a bit more of the later, rockier stuff

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gdQ0eeQXtAo

At least you managed to get the right band, not that OTHER one.

I had a bass crumhorn, but sold it a few years ago.

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