Bassoon Makers

Woodcut by Weigel (1698)

  Link to company web site

J.M. Linton Woodwinds, located in Elkhart, Indiana, constructs bassoons and oboes for the student. Instruments are constructed out of an ABS plastic composite and where difficult fingerings and reaches are a consideration, they give special attention to engineering comfortable, efficient key solutions such as plateau keys.

Once bought by Armstrong (now itself part of Conn/UMI) which eventually phased out the Linton trade name, it is an independent company again. Linton makes two models of plastic bassoons (the upper model includes a high D key) and seven models of plastic oboes. Both bassoon models have the covered 3rd finger C key making them easier to play by younger bassoonists with smaller hands.

List of Makers

• AMATI Bassoons
• B.H. Bell Bassoons
• Fox Products
• Heckel Biebrich
• Peter de Koningh Bassoons
• Linton
• Moennig-Adler
• Gustav Mollenhauer
• Bernd Moosmann
• Moulder and Millyard
• Puchner
• Leslie Ross
• Guntram Wolf

(This list is still being developed and more information will be added as time permits.)

National Music Museum

Click on this link to go to the National Music Museum which is housed at the University of South Dakota. The Museum has information on specific historical instruments and their makers along with some very detailed photos of a few of the instruments.