Any one know of any information on how to march a bassoon. I have been crashing Cymbols for two (many) years and with those to years i have hated it. I want to march with a Bassoon but first i have to convince the band director to allow it. Any thoughts or ideas on where i can obtain the information i seek?

My high school band director has seen a couple of marching bassoons... I think it`s a bit.. um.. dangerous to march a bassoon. There are too many ways you can stab yourself with the reed and such. I wouldn`t advise it, but i can check into it

Sometimes they allow it, but like clari said you can get hurt. I got hurt by my reed on my lip when i first started playing.

The problem with marching a bassoon is not what it can do to you, but what you can do to it. As someone with first-hand knowledge of such things (I fell on my sax one rainy morning during practice, and flattened the bell) marching such an expensive and fragile instrument would be terrible for your poor band director. I mean at three to seven thousand and even more for the instrument and three hundred for the bocal, it would be a nightmare.

But all you would really need to march a bassoon would be a neckstrap and do it like they do bass clarinets.

I would suggest learning an addition instrument to march as opposed to cymbals.

ummmm.....i have seen this one band that had 400 people in it (wow) and they had 3 marching bassoons. But they played with plastic reeds so that would eliminate that part of wat clari said. They also have something called a sorrusaphone, i guess, which is an official marching bassoon that is metal though. Has the same fingerings too. Someone told me `bout it. So yeah...

Uhhhh, I`m interested in marching a bassoon too. Any idea on how you could modify a bassoon so that you can march with it? And also, where`d you get a neck strap for it?

I started to play bassoon last year with our highschool simphonic band and i love it. Then came along marching season and i had told my music derector if i could march in it and he just chuckled..
so i had to stick with marching the bari sax or the alto

That Sousa thingie sounds pretty good. I didn`t realize Bocals were like 300 dollars.

Last year I was putting the bocal onto my basson and I bent it pretty bad. I was able to fix it though, luckily.

Hehe I tried to convince my band director to let me march bassoon. He said it was possible, but the music didn`t call for it and I wouln`t fit in the drill or something along those lines. I would only be concerned that rain would warp the wood (I played a performance in the rain and it only rained on our show and no one else`s and we still won 1st place)
That instrument that you talk of is called a Sousaphone and it is what the tuba or baritone players play on the field. Note the fact that it wraps around you so it can be easily played. Pretty much it is a modified tuba and is supposedly played the same way.

Ummm, no offense, but I know what a sousaphone is, and im talking about something totally different. The king band geek of our school is supposed to send me a pic of one, and if he says it exists, it does. (Just to prove it, a sousaphone is a tuba that wraps around your body and that points forward instead of up.
I`m talking about a sorousaphone wow thats hard to spell.)

A sorrousaphone is not the same as a sousaphone. They are two different things. The king band geek of our school is supposed to send me a pic of one, and if he says it exists, it does. (Just to prove i know what a sousaphone is, its a tuba that wraps around your body and that points forward instead of up.
I`m talking about a sorousaphone wow thats hard to spell.)

Sry for writing so many posts, ignore that 1st rude one, I thot i brought the sorouasaphone up.

Try a band director that has had a marching band bassoon. Or find a bassoon player that marched.

Go to http://bandsrock.proboards1.com/index.cgi IT is a great band website!

Its "Sarrusophone" not Sorrusaphone or Sourousaphone. Just a trombone player but i really think double reeds are pretty cool.