Bassoon Clearance Sale now on

We have now got an area of our web site devoted to bassoon bargains - bassoons sold at a much lower price than our normal range.

We currently have five bassoons in the clearance section ranging in price from £250 to £595. Between them, they provide an interesting range of opportunities, from starter bassoons in full working order from £395 to a couple of French system high pitch bassoons for the person looking for something a little bit different.

All apart from one are in full playing order with extensive work carried out on them to the same standard as our normal-priced bassoons. The exception is a Buffet Crampon bassoon which we are selling in an unrefurbished state.

All of them are available to be borrowed under our Approval Loan scheme and, apart from the Buffet, come with our standard 6 month guarantee.

Have a look at our Clearance Bassoons now.

Schreiber 5091 Professional Bassoon Now on Sale

Just added to our web site: Schreiber's professional bassoon, the 5091 (also known as the S91), on sale for a bargain price of £7,450. This bassoon retails new at around £13,000; this example has had 8 months use since sold new, and has been very carefully looked after so it looks like it has come straight from the factory. 

The Schreiber 5091 has a very high specification and sounds impressively rich. This example was one of the last made in the Schreiber factory in Germany before the take-over by Buffet. Buffet have confirmed their support of the the Schreiber bassoon line, and the 5091 is continuing to be made by Buffet as their top professional bassoon.

For more information, please see: http://www.doublereed.co.uk/Bassoon_Schreiber_5091__37881_For_Sale.htm

BDRS Annual Convention 2012

Thanks to everyone who visited our stand last Sunday at the British Double Reed Society Annual Convention 2012. It was a great event for us and we had the pleasure of meeting some old friends and past contacts and plenty of new ones.

As the only secondhand bassoon supplier at the show, we had a lot of interest. A fair number of visitors were coming across us for the first time and didn't know that we specialised in secondhand instruments - and a number of them didn't guess our bassoons were secondhand even on close inspection (all down to the rigorous selection of  the best bassoons and our preparation of them, of course).

Among others, we were pleased to see Clive Fairbairn, Editor of the British Double Reed Society Magazine, who mentioned that one of his pupils had recently bought one of our bassoons and was very happy with it.

Here's a picture of our stand just before the show started.

BDRS Convention 6th May Preview

We're really looking forward to seeing everyone at our stand at the BDRS Convention on Sunday 6th May in Cardiff.

We'll have a really exciting line up of bassoons on show, from a superb, completely restored late 4000 series Heckel made in 1911 through to a mint condition Fox 201D from 2008. This Heckel 4000 is the best we've ever seen, and the Fox has hardly been used.

We also have a range of other bassoons to show, including an Adler, a Schreiber, a Moosmann 222 "Gentleman's" model and a really interesting 60-year-old Buffet French system bassoon which is in superb restored condition with a new Buffet crook.

Come along, have a look and have a try on them...