The bassoon is the legitimate bass to the oboe and to the wood wind in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

Most schools only buy "exotic" instruments, she said, such as bassoon or other unusual instruments.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) BOILEN: I've got my bassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Next Big Thing' in Music] Reference

Do you know by sight and sound an oboe from a bassoon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Giltz: Books: Padgett Powell Has A Few Questions He'd Like To Ask] Reference

The bassoon and two cellos crashed into a final chord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference

When it spoke, it sounded like a bassoon blowing words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns of Avalon]

Basque Region bas-relief bass bass drum bassoon bass viol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entry Index: appendectomy to Berkshires] Reference

You know, it starts in the bassoon and then it goes to oboe.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Scheherazade,' 1001 Nights Retold in a Symphony] Reference

(Soundbite of The Bureaucrat): SIMON: A bassoon and piccolo?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shostakovich, Man of Many Variations] Reference

The human organ of voice is like the clarionet and the bassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference

At one point, the flute is a telescope and the bassoon, a broomstick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imani Winds Hits Its Mark on 'Josephine Baker'] Reference

The bassoon, the clarinet, the flute -- but how shall we describe them!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference

“College,” returns Mr. Bagnet in short sentences, bassoon – like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

The old girl borrowed a bassoon from the bandmaster of the Rifle Regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

Personnel: Standard, plus Anton Denner (bassoon) and Diane Brown (tamboura).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide to Classical Indian/Jazz Fusion by Allen Alley Cat Lutins] Reference

The so-called wood wind instruments are the flute, oboe, bassoon, and clarinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

"I'll see you, then," Jeremy said, turning away to go look for his bassoon case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond World's End]

As he spoke, the litter sped past a shop with a zither and a dusty bassoon in its window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exodus From The Long Sun]

A notable bassoon player was Mr. Bagnet, who had a voice somewhat resembling his instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference

There is a very telling quality in the upper notes of the bassoon of which composers have made use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

When she was invited, not long ago, to attend a recording session of her bassoon concerto, she declined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kids In The Hall] Reference

"There's a little bit of a language barrier," said Wade Coufal, a high school bassoon player from Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuning Up: The YouTube Symphony Debut] Reference

Mrs. Brumby plays finely on the bassoon, and has evenings dedicated to Sebastian Bach, and enlivened with Handel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Street] Reference

The mutilated Anglo-Saxon caused her almost physical pain, yet the voice was musical enough and deep as a bassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

After all, until that time, I did not know the difference between a cadenza and a concerto, an oboe and a bassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Mitchell: After 100,000 Gather in Central Park: How a Former Rocker Came to Embrace Beethoven] Reference

One night, when his great work 'Leonore' was to be rehearsed, the third bassoon failed to put in an appearance, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

The tenoroon, with which the oboe di caccia has been compared, was a high bassoon really on octave and a fifth below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

The sarrusophone may fairly be regarded as an oboe or bassoon; but the saxophone is not so closely related to the clarinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

It's all sci-fi modernism and game-show gaiety, with psychotically jovial mixes of xylophone, glockenspiel, harp and bassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [All I Want For Christmas...] Reference

“The forest abounds with oak, elm, and beech trees”; “The bassoon player was born in Roanoke, Virginia, on December 29, 1957.    From Wordnik.com.  [comma] Reference

It was formerly more like the reed of the shawm, an instrument from which the oboe has been derived; and that of the present bassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference

We have two violins (first and second), one clarinet, violoncello, oboe, and bassoon, the latter instrument giving the deep organ tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

The bassoon was my instrument in high school, and as a child I heard the voice of Harold Ramis in a crowded lecture hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMIXTALK] Reference

The bassoon is a difficult instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference