#double reeds

[r4twholuvsthebeatles]

Started doodling tryna make up ideas for my Sona, also decided to make my marching band uniform sooo here's a concept. I march tenor sax btw!!

[doublereedsuggestion]

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[queen-fenestra]

I, a bassoonist, went down the rabbit hole of double reed instruments on wikipedia, and will be rating them out of ten mostly based on looks

a regular bassoon 9/10. i love it very much but there is room for improvement

okay, next up, the tenoroon, which receives the award for dumbest sounding instrument ever 4/10 would be less but it looks kind of cool. lost a lot of points on the name

also, the contrabassoon, something i wish i could play so much. it looks so cool 10/10 no notes

next, the dulcian. I used to think this was cool, until i tried making this post and then every single picture i put in here turned into a blurry upclose shot of a dulcian and i almost went insane. it looks like it'd be fun to play though. its so small. 6/10 lost a lot of marks due to its trying to be every picture

Oh! and let us not forget semi contra, an instrument i only learned about today. it looks so interesting and why is it metal??? 8/10 it seems like it is trying to betray the woodwinds and join the enemy (brass and saxophones)

Alas! my friends, my foray into wikipedia did not end there. I ventured to explore variants of the oboe (the worse of the two best known double reeds).

again, a normal oboe for reference 6/10 is kind of shrill and too hard to play. pretty good in the hands of an expert just not my type

i also found the piccolo oboe, but that looks exactly the same, save smaller, and so i will decline to include a picture

next i saw the english horn. half decent. looks cool. it gets an 7/10 one more point than oboe simply because itslike an oboe but trying to be a bassoon and in my book you get points for trying

after that came the oboe of love. (why it is called that? i dont know but i find it hilarious) pretty much the same as a regular oboe again 7/10 its just an oboe but with a better name

next another instrument i had never heard of the oboe da caccia. its like if an oboe and a french horn had a baby so its like an oboe but worse 5/10 (remember kids, brass are the enemy)

and last but not least, bass oboe. 8/10 only oboe i would play

note: i i offended brass players, oboeists, or saxophonists in this post, then i have acheived my goal

[iplaythebassoon]

hello! just popping in to share some art pieces I made this year with various musical instruments. I know this isn’t my typical content but I think they’re cool so here you go:

P.S. no instruments that weren’t already broken were harmed in the creation of these pieces. I didn’t saw a perfectly functional guitar up, promise. (please don’t repost but reblogs are much appreciated!)

[yourlocalenbyreblogs]

anyways i burnt my tongue on a slice of pizza and i have to do bassoon lessons today. flkshdflslfshldkdhl kill me.

[just-band-kid-things]

dear oboists/bassoonists: how do you do that

[godeepthroatanoboe]

Oboe: the perfect blend between a strangled duck and America's economy

[red-rhythm]

Sorry. Nothing wrong with the instrument; it just sounds like a duck with a cold.