welcome

Welcome to my website for all things bassoon, contra bassoon, bassoon reed and music related.

With the magic of the Internet and the madness of Facebook and Myspace I thought I would also secure a small piece of cyberspace for the world of the bassoon to collect together useful information that has taken years to accumulate and to share it with those who are interested.

For sound clips click on sound in the top menu which WILL take you to Mypace and my Nocturne for bassoon and piano, as well as four of me playing Rimsky Korsakov. The wonders of modern technology...you can even see Vivaldi's Bassoon Concerto in Bb "La Notte" on Youtube.

I have also started a blog which I haven't been very good at updating which you can connect to from the "blog" button which enables you to leave comments (sensible ones please).

Pictured here is my pre-war Mollenhauer bassoon. I also play  a 25 year old Mollenhauer contra bassoon and a 13000 series Heckel bassoon.

Tom Hardy