WASHINGTON: A few years ago, when the US National Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing at the Kennedy Centre for a performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka, a funny thing happened to the orchestra's ...

Martha Malkiewicz never got her stolen contrabassoon back. But this weekend, in a pair of classics concerts, the musician with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra started over with the next best thing: ...

"Though there are many bassoonists that play contrabassoon only grudgingly, Richard Bobo relishes the contrabassoon and considers himself equally a contrabassoonist and bassoonist." That's how Jason ...

An instrument that went missing almost six years ago from Kleinhans Music Hall is home again, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announced Friday. A contrabassoon – a woodwind instrument with a sound ...

*A freak of an instrument, made to create a sensation in 1739 – and the original model still exists, and it's playable. https://youtu.be/rLYRfHjZIy8 Orchestra of ...

It might be the oldest new instrument to arrive in Australia this year. It's definitely the longest. The contrabassoon Sydney's Pinchgut Opera took delivery of on Friday is 2.7 metres long, and ...