The bass of the woodwinds.
A real bassoon, recorded from its lowest B-flat, deep in tuba country, up past the E-flat above middle C. Every recording was measured and tuned, so a bass line or a grumpy cartoon theme sits right in pitch.
Bassoon
A real bassoon, the woodwinds' bass voice: warm, reedy and a little bit funny.
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Sustain off · hold Shift
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No MIDI keyboard? Play with your computer keys: bottom rows are the lower octave, top rows the higher one. Hold Shift to sustain. ← → octave, ↑ ↓ semitone.
Bassoon online
Play a real bassoon online, free
Plays softer or fuller with a MIDI keyboard.
On a velocity-sensitive MIDI keyboard, a light touch plays the bassoon soft and round and a firmer one gives the full, reedy buzz it is known for. The left arrow takes the letter keys down to its lowest notes.
Free, and nothing is uploaded.
No plugin, no sample library and no account. The sound is made in this page, and a take you record is saved as a WAV on your own computer.