Bassoon Lights

At Virginia Commonwealth University we rigged up Christmas lights on our bassoons to flash in time with our performance of the Nutcracker

Bassoon I- Bruce Hammel
Bassoon II- Kendrey Trammell
Bassoon III- Colin Mannes
Bassoon IV- Jacob Darrow
Contrabassoon- Nick Taylor

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• bassoon
• christmas
• nutcracker
• lights
• tchaikovsky
• VCU

[muzzleray]

Best girl friend I ever had was a bassoonist

[mizukatakiko]

It's because you have to be insane to wanna play the bassoon. It has a bajillion keys for all of the fingers.

[Spider2point0]

It's insanity, but I love it! And you guys definitely win props for rigging lights on your bassoons. I'll have to see if I can do that sometime xD

[pokemaniac6453]

I play bassoon. I NEED to do this for next years Winter concert.

[renji928]

how do you do that??!?!?!? i would like payyyy to do that ._.

[sbear848]

@mizukatakiko I'm a bassoonist and I'm definitely insane. =] so are all my friends who play bassoon. They may think they're sane, but look what you chose to play. :D crazy fun instrument for crazy fun people.

[seamonkeyfan90]

@mizukatakiko ...excuse me?!

[bassoonplya4lyfe]

This makes me crack up everytime i see it.... amazing idea!

[dbrockbassoon]

@mizukatakiko not really. only a few. thank you for demoting my instrument you freak. :)

[Jessmantha]

@mizukatakiko Yup, thumbs up to that one!!! :P (pun intended)

[halokid7]

Hey guys, i know its been about 3 1/2 years now, but would you mind giving me an idea how to do this? I wanna try doing this at my next winter concert xD

[Jessmantha]

I would love to know how to do this!