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The Bassoon Brothers got a mention in Sunset Magazine's February 2002 issue and were featured in an article in the Seattle Times on Feb. 9, 2000 regarding Chamber Music on Tap.
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The Bassoon Brothers call each other by the following nicknames (abbreviated) SDG, ODG, BDG, FDG. We call each other by other names too, but these can't be printed.
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Mark, Juan and Bonnie play on instruments manufactured by Fox Products in South Whitley, Indiana. Mark has been a Fox dealer for over 25
years.
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The Bassoon Brothers have sold out every performance at
Bridgeport Brew Pub's Chamber Music On Tap which is presented by the Oregon Symphony.
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The Bassoon Brothers have appeared and performed on television in Portland -- KOPB's Art Beat, Murray Sidlin's award winning show on the public access channel and KATU's AM Northwest.
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In 1997, the Bassoon Brothers commissioned mentor and fellow bassoonist Peter Schickele, a.k.a. P.D.Q. Bach, to write a bassoon quartet. Blue Set No. 2 is a challenging piece in three movements -- Bassooner or Later (bebop), Portlandia in Cerulean
(shuffle), and Gang of Wolves (boogie woogie) -- and was recorded on the first CD.
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The newest members of our family an octave bassoon (sopranoon) and a "tenoroon," also called a "fagottino" by its maker, Guntrum Wolf.
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Tracks from the Bassoon Brothers' first CD have been played for in flight music on several U.S. airlines.
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The Bassoon Brothers' first CD, Wanted, has outsold every other solo bassoon recording on Amazon.com since its release in 1999.
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The Bassoon Brothers are the first and only "bassoon section" of a major U.S. symphony orchestra (Oregon Symphony) to have recorded a CD. Their first CD, called Wanted--For Low Down Playing and Bass Behavior, was released in 1999. Their second CD Captured was released in 2002.