🎷 Bassoonists: Elevate Your Sound with the Perfect Reed! 🎼

Unlock your instrument's full potential with our expert guide! 🔓

1️⃣ Match strength to embouchure control 💪
2️⃣ Select cut for ideal brightness/darkness 🌓
3️⃣ Prioritize high-quality cane 🌾
4️⃣ Pair reed with unique bocal & bore 🎻
5️⃣ Learn the art of reed making 🎨

https://kandmmusicschool.com/blogs/bassoon-lessons/the-importance-of-reed-selection-in-achieving-optimal-bassoon-sound/

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Things found in students’ notebooks, exhibit A. (My orchestra was sadly unicorn-less, so I’m glad to see this student’s orchestra is better equipped.)

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I have made the requisite offering of broken bow hairs to the gods of late Romantic orchestral music. May the ghost of Rachmaninoff bless me as I play 🙏🏼

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Why do orchestras need conductors? Because the conductor is one of the few people in the room who can count higher than four.

The other people in the room who can count higher than four are the percussionists, and they’re too smart to be hoodwinked into a job that makes them wave their arms through an entire concert.

(Also they aren’t as addicted to the applause afterwards.)

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