Top Ten Questions and Curiosities of the Bassoon--Answered and Analyzed

Jeffrey Copp

ABSTRACT

Teaching bassoon can be a daunting task, especially to busy music educators who may not fully understand the complexity of the instrument themselves. The keys to unlocking every bassoonist's potential exist in many pages of physics text and method books alike, yet we need look no further than our students' natural tendencies to question all things. In the past ten years of playing bassoon, I have asked many questions myself and listened to many more concerns and curiosities of my students. These questions range from crows to half-holes and everything in between. From all of these questions I have chosen ten that I feel will benefit the developing bassoonist the most.