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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