My folks' town used to feature the only bassonist busker I have ever encountered.
fact.
(barryheadwoundMul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Mon 23 Feb 2009, 15:25,
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every month
we'd give over our Friday music lesson to a 'jam' session so we could go into the store room and anything that was not out on loan, in the orchestra, stolen would be distributed amongst the class and we'd just play anything we fancied. I always remember the one spare bassoon ( we had another bassoon but a girl played it in the orchestra for the five years I was there and it never left her side ) would be fought over like it was an electric guitar. I think the thought of playing something bigger than yourself was a draw.
/qotw blog
(Pasanonic's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Mon 23 Feb 2009, 15:31,
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used to play the bassoon at school
I never rocked out as much as the bloke in the picture though.
(MetaFaradloves to TANZEN!,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 9:09,
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fagott
Did you know that in German, the bassoon is called "Fagott". Which might lead to misunderstandings when a German conducts an English orchestra: "Da capo, zat fagott was too loud"