This book helps keep your bassoon in tip top shape and helps to solve some common issues. It shows how to put your bassoon together, keep it in brilliant condition, detect minor faults and how to do minor on the spot repairs & adjustments and, posibly most importantly, when to take your bassoon to the repairer. Some of the problems that this book covers are:

• The crook (bocal) wobbles
• Not being able to play up the octave
• Not being able to play C# below middle C
• Notes below E sound fuzzy or squeak
• I've checked the whisper key is working but low notes aren't speaking
• B on the second bottom line sounds sharp but Bb and C are in tune
• And much more...