I’ve had the new bassoon bocal on trial a week now. Just mailed the seller to send me a bill for it. :) I haven’t wanted to play on my old bocal at all, I automatically grab the new one every time.

So many things are easier- it’s more responsive both in terms of speaking more easily and immediately and in being more flexible in dynamics. And the tuning is still stable enough. And it tunes just a bit higher so I don’t have to push to get up to 441/442. Very happy bassoonist. :)

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Visited Amsterdam Bassoon Center today with both of my bassoons and part of a dulcian. Baroque bassoon needed a couple sticking or leaking keys fixed. Modern bassoon came with because I wanted to try new bocals.

My original set up doesn’t really want to play higher than A=441, and in cold weather even that is a stretch. In the end I both came away with a used Heckel bocal to try out at home for a bit longer, and one of my Fox bocals cut shorter (I never play that one otherwise, so there was nothing to lose really). Dulcian part remained behind to be glued.

Felt like a very efficient visit! Plus had a nice chat with Max, the owner. 😊

http://amsterdambassooncenter.com/

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This is a link to Gothenburg Symphony playing a suite by Hugo Alfvén. Really good orchestra! But why I'm posting is that about 15 min in there's a fun movement that is just the three bassoons together. They get an applause from the conductor in the middle of the suite. Well deserved.

https://www.gso.se/en/gsoplay/video/alfven-gustav-ii-adolf-svit/

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An orchestral song I have just composed: «Four murders». It's written for oboes, bassoon, horns, piano, solo cello, and cellos & double basses sections.

PS: The sound is straight away from #MuseScore

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This last page of the bassoon part of Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre looks quite innocent on paper, but it’s actually really tiring to play! It just keeps going, phew. ( Tempo is about bar=76 I think)

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