I just wanted to say I love your bassoons. I played on serial number 002. It was a beautiful piece of mahogany and played such sweet music. I am fortunate enough to have played on it. If only I could afford one now-workin on that! My #2 was the best instrument I have ever played. Thank you for your quality. FYI-I grew up in Huntington and Roanoke, ...

The new bassoon bocal is a big change. It out plays my Heckel bocal by a significant amount, and it also is far better than the bocal used by the guy I play with who has a 1967 vintage Heckel bassoon and bocal. I was surprised that it worked so well on his bassoon. He, too, was quite shocked! It really solves many of my instrument's problems above ...

My daughter, Kelly and I had the pleasure of meeting you recently at IDRS as we began the process of purchasing [her] instrument. Over the course of the past several months, I've called a few times to get information on used instruments. I have always received frank and honest assessments (both positive and negative) which proved very helpful. We h...