Any bassoonists?

[HeatherH]

Here in the Hive?

I know, I know, it's a bizarre question. . . .just thought I'd ask.

(And, sorry - oboe players need not apply! heh heh - ;) - just a little double reed humor, now don't go slapping me with negative rep points y'all)

[CLHCO]

I'm sure that doesn't count though. It was in a woodwind class to be the band teachers neither of us ended up becoming. I did do oboe for that class and I was terrible at it. I was a flute major at the time but I could not blow into the thing! Our class teacher was an oboe player. He couldn't teach me either. :(

I should have done bassoon.

[Montana Peach]

I played bassoon for a while in college too, adding it to all the rest I'd played. I honestly enjoyed it quite a lot.

[sdWTMer]

Oh how fun, I wish that I would have tried that out when I was in band. Bummer.

[HeatherH]

Am I really the only bassoonist in the Hive?

DARN! I could have played the 5 unbelievable things game!!!!

[Hoggirl]

I am certain I couldn't toot a single note on it now! I played flute in band, but you know how that is. There are always soooo many flute players. We had this Nazi band director who needed another bassoon player. You never refused him. Actually, it was a compliment that he asked me to do it, since he knew I would work hard enough to get the job done.
My true instrument, however, is classical guitar.

[HeatherH]

That's how I got to play bassoon - too many flute players! I'm glad, though - it earned me a free ride to college :D

OK, now how many of y'all want me to teach your kids bassoon???!;)

[Jean in Newcastle]

Actually ds10 has asked if he can learn to play the bassoon! Do you travel out to Washington state for lessons?!

[Karin]

Here in the Hive?

I know, I know, it's a bizarre question. . . .just thought I'd ask.

(And, sorry - oboe players need not apply! heh heh - ;) - just a little double reed humor, now don't go slapping me with negative rep points y'all)

Yes, as a former oboe player, I take that as a joke. I played it because the band teacher appealed to my vanity. He was new in town, had lots and lots of clarinet and flute volunteers (it was a new band in my elementary school for gr 7). The first time I blew that thing the other kids said it sounded like a rubber ducky and the name stuck.

I did well enough to be first (and only, I might add) oboeist in high school in gr 9 (fr 8 doesn't count as it was all one grade), but had I actually taken that thing home and practiced I might have done well. I coasted on my piano background and we practiced together 5 days a week.

[chiguirre]

Well, this isn't a real person, but Isabel Dalhousie's friend Jamie is a bassoonist in Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh series. Check it out, since I'm pretty sure this is your only chance at a fictional bassoonist;)

http://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Philosophy-Isabel-Dalhousie-Mysteries/dp/1400077095/ref=cm_lmf_tit_11_rsrsrs0

[LisaK in VA]

Bassoon was one of the many instruments I learned, when as a jr. high student, I was sure I was going to major in music in college :D

I started out on flute, then added piano, piccolo, clarinet, sax... and bassoon. I also began percussion work.

By my senior year in high school, music was no longer my calling -- but I was well versed. Probably couldn't play a lick of anything other than flute/piccolo and piano now, though!

[Karin]

Well, this isn't a real person, but Isabel Dalhousie's friend Jamie is a bassoonist in Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh series. Check it out, since I'm pretty sure this is your only chance at a fictional bassoonist;)

http://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Philosophy-Isabel-Dalhousie-Mysteries/dp/1400077095/ref=cm_lmf_tit_11_rsrsrs0

:) I just read the first in this series this month while my kids were swimming. And the author plays the bassoon as well.