The bassoon has been called “ the clown of the orchestra” — but the best clowns are performers capable of doing so much more than making people laugh. That is something that Richard Ramey and Susie ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

It’s around 130 centimetres long, Germans call it a “fagott”, and the girls who play with it say it’s “unlike anything you’ve seen before.” It’s the bassoon, a woodwind instrument, and it’s heavily ...