Bassoon Makers

Woodcut by Weigel (1698)

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Leslie Ross Instruments and Music was established in 1984 and is located in New York City. He builds replicas of curtals, baroque bassoons, classical bassoons and romantic bassoons as well as doing restoration work on modern bassoons. In 1993, he began constructing modern bassoon bocals. All instruments are handmade.

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.