Beg to differ-its a great instrument the Boehm system (French) Bassoon is great. I dont' play it per se but I sure do love it.
I'm a Fox 41 at the moment but hopefully i'll bump up to something like a Leitzinger or a Heckel sometime later on in life.
I'd personally love to try out a Mucetti system but I'd probably make it sound like death.