Monty by Jim Meddick for December 02, 2015

Well, maybe not completely.Vivaldi is good, however, even at high decibels….

I used to play air oboe.

I like to play air accordion. Of course, I get heckled by the air guitarists.

Do air musicians have air groupies?

People have recommended that I become an air lead singer.

I can’t think of any Vivaldi works that use bassoon, although I’m sure there are a few. His best know pieces are for strings only, though. With Bach, on the other hand, you get the Brandenburg Concerti and the Orchestral Suites, which have plenty of bassoon. Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks also use a lot of bassoon. So, if Sedgie wants to play air bassoon, he’d have a lot more works to choose from with Bach and Handel. Of course, any hardcore air bassoon player should be listening to the Mozart Bassoon Concerto.

Play “big takeover” by Bad Brains. Can be heard online.

There was a CD recently released with Vivaldi concerti for bassoon. In fact:

“Vivaldi composed 39 concertos for bassoon, two of which are incomplete. After the violin, to which the composer dedicated some 230 concertos, the bassoon is the instrument for which he wrote the most concertos.”

http://www.early-music.com/vivaldi-chiaroscuro/

David Bethke, you beat me to it! Bravo!

I’ll bet HIS volume control goes to 11….

I am a virtuoso air cowbellist.

I used to play the bassoon underwater. It takes some getting used to and you have to be careful of the whales, but it did keep the sharks away.