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.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From Baroque concertos to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and chamber music of today, the bassoon is ...

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 ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...

" 'Uh oh — things are going comically awry!' That's the way I think it is most often used in television and movies," says Eileen Reynolds, who has played the bassoon since elementary school. "When I ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. It is the lowest of the woodwind instruments. It is made out of maple wood ...