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“The bassoon is absurd... it takes like an hour to assemble one. They're enormous and are made of Lincoln Logs, aluminum twigs, and paper towel tubes. There are these tiny double wooden reeds that you have to soak and trim and tend to all the time. There's a strap that you actually have to sit on when you play so the whole thing doesn't fall on the floor like a bundle of garbage.”

Band Orchestra Reeds Bassoon Double Reed

Book:The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

Source: The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.”

Cry Wind Terrible Heavy Revenge Bassoon

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.”

Needs Writing Years Song Rooms Clear Records Building Apartment Collecting Ukulele Bassoon

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!”

Stills Play Running Courses Planets Instruments Ridiculous Traditional Our Planet Satellites Anachronism Bassoon

Author:Witold Lutosławski

“It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.”

People Persons I Can Used Sound Baseball Instruments My Favorite Excited Crave Medieval Unfathomable Aroma Bassoon

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon; All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd To the dancers dancing in tune; Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon.”

Night Silence Heard Moon Bird Dancing Rose Dance Setting Settings Dancer Tunes Waking All Night Violin Just Dance Hush Flutes Bassoon

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.”

Years Said Billions Tunes Baboons Bassoon

Author:Arthur Eddington

“At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.”

School Prayer Boys Enjoyed Melody Orchestra Hymns Prayer Time Bassoon

Author:James Dyson

“Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.”

Knows Mind Play Hands Break Dog Habit Instruments Fingers Careful Be Careful Absolutely Nothing Happy Place Playing Instruments Bassoon

Author:Tom Waits