UK store and website selling stuff for double reed players including reeds and cane. There is also a link to the official Hoffnung web site. You’ll also find some short sound bites demonstrating the mini bassoon and the tenoroon which are worth listening to if you’re a teacher who has a small child as a prospective pupil. There’s also a fine photo of David Buckland. The bassoon music for this children’s television series was, I believe, (please correct me if I’m wrong) written by the late Vernon Elliott who was contra in the Philharmonia Orchestra in the days when it called itself the New Philharmonia and was a highly admired teacher. Howarth’s web site which has a ‘fun page’ ( ) where you can find a link to a page about Ivor the Engine. has links to lots of other bassoon manufacturers. Instruments made to order by Canadian bassoonist Ben Bell. Also on their site is a baroque bassoon fingering chart. Schreiber bassoons and contras a YouTube video of Schreiber’s manufacturing processes. also has some useful information about the different models of Fox bassoons and contras.

There’s also a good brief history of the development of the modern bassoon. Heckel’s web site gives a useful description of the different types of crook that they manufacture as well as their full product range. A useful resource with lots of advice on orchestral excerpts put together by Brett Van Gansbeke from Houston. Tom Hardy is a freelance bassoonist in London. New York based Frank Morelli’s web site contains a Cyber Masterclass.

It’s packed full of good stuff on reeds, fingerings etc etc. John Schroder’s website was one of the first made by a UK bassoonist. William Short is Principal Bassoon at the Metropolitan Opera in Ney York and his website is full of helpful information and includes an interesting blog. Tp://Dag Jensen the astounding Norwegian virtuoso. This website of Barrick Stees of the Cleveland Orchestra has a huge amount of information about reed making and other aspects of bassoon playing.

Links to Websites of Organisations for Bassoonists:

Schreiber bassoon company