Below is my list of links to web sites under the headings of 'Non-bassoon', 'Youtube', and 'Obituaries'

Non-bassoon Stuff

http://www.blanksheetmusic.net/ free manuscript paper. If you ever need just a sheet or two of manuscript paper, just print it out from this site. You can choose how many staves per page, whether to have clefs, how dark to have the lines and much more on this straightforward site. And it's absolutely free! Much better than going and spending money on a book of manuscript paper that you might not use again for years.

http://www.practicespot.com/  here you can buy a book called The Practice Revolution . This  is aimed at music teachers and is full of useful techniques to help you or your pupils master those tricky passages which seem impossible and motivate you to achieve your goals.

http://www.sightreadthis.com/index.php . For $5 a year (or $1 per person for a group) you get access to a database of melodies to sight-read .

http://www.oddmusic.com/clips/sarrus.mp3 sarrusophone audio clip and home page links to other strange beasts. 

http://www.musiciansmarketplace.co.uk  . Here you can find those enterprising musicians who can turn their hands to a wide variety of activities other than music. There are plumbers, photographers, baby sitters, gardeners, lingerie sellers, driving instructors etc etc etc. All very splendid.

http://www.classicalsource.com/home.php has notices of concerts, reviews of concerts and CD's, articles and  discussions etc.

Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjrHBycCKI   Bye Bye Reed.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnaxQ4_3vs  Terry B Ewell on reed making.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZZgzzm_Mg See Terry B. Ewell doing circular breathing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMhJV5u_OSE is on the lighter side.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w   . Not bassoon related but still very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTy3lfKC-U&NR=1 .There was a programme recently on the television about the first performance of the Rite of Spring and this is the bit where the bassoonist first treads in that famous solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rhwGUJ6l6Q . A student conquers the Rite with the perfect reed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upx7XVrOE-c&NR=1 . The things we do to earn a living!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMzdHvnI53Q . Bassoon playing up to top A above the treble clef stave!

Obituaries

Charles Cracknell died May 1997:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-charles-cracknell-1264172.html

Gwydion Brooke died in April 2005:
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/06/db0602.xml 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1452935,00.html 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1078860.ece 
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050405/ai_n13498612
http://www.lastlinkontheleft.com/fc0503.html#f1270 

Michael Chapman died July 2005: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article569148.ece

Lewis Hugh Cooper died April 2007:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlym/pages/cooper.html and (more of a biography): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nzeisler/605/cooper.htm

Brian Wightman died July 2007:
This obituary (click here) was published by Double Reed News, the magazine of the British Double Reed Society ( http://www.bdrs.org.uk/ ),  and is reproduced with their kind permission.

William Waterhouse died November 2007:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2207997,00.html and  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2885400.ece . 
The International Double Reed Society has a tribute on its web site:http://idrs2.colorado.edu/home/
There is a biography of him at http://www.answers.com/topic/william-waterhouse?cat=technology .
There is a photograph of him on Howarth's web site: http://www.howarth.uk.com/ .

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