“The contrabassoon is more resistant and you have to do more to make it work,” Lipnick says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference

You can also hear that the contrabassoon is more difficult to play, even in the hands of a top player like Lipnick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference

(The less common contrabassoon is larger and has a lower pitch.).    From Wordnik.com.  [bassoon] Reference

To Jon-Tom he resembled a cross between Colonel Sanders and a contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Dissonance]

Which is probably why there are a lot of people who can play piano and not that many the contrabassoon and double bass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

“The spark of divinity can be present in a liverwurst just as well as in a contrabassoon,” he wrote in his preface to the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference

Dee: I don't mean to question your analysis, Commander, but it has normal brown eyes and was not an instant virtuoso on the contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

Lewis Lipnick, the contrabassoonist of the NSO, plays Schulhoff's piece on the contrabassoon, the instrument he has been playing for more than 40 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference

(Soundbite of music) LUNDEN: Mehldau has stretched his sonic palette on "Highway Rider" to include a chamber orchestra with strings, horns and contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Mehldau: Beyond The Boundaries Of Jazz] Reference

At first hearing, the similarities between the contraforte and the contrabassoon are evident: both instruments hang out in the dark, lowest register of the double-reed universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference

Ryan Inzana Ravel, a quintessentially elegant composer, begins his "Concerto Pour la Main Gauche" with a surprisingly ungainly instrument, the contrabassoon, which produces a raspy, ominous sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound of One Hand Playing] Reference

That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy] Reference

The temporal field sprang into existence once more and guardians hastened to remove three large containers labeled MEDICATIONS, a case of Canadian Club, a papillon dog yapping hysterically inside its mesh carrier, a twenty-liter carboy of "Joy," a set of Larousse's Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXeme Siecle Francais, and a contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

This one is for contrabassoon and Max / MSP, called ContraMax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

The deep horns and contrabassoon remind us that where Borodin is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Highway Rider to include a chamber orchestra with strings, horns and contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

For Arlen Fast, changing the contrabassoon meant going where no one had for more than a century class notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bethel College News] Reference

The oboe and other double reed woodwinds (bassoon, contrabassoon, and English horn) are difficult to play properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blisstree] Reference

It sounded mostly like harsh noise, with a the low rumble of the contrabassoon sounding like an animal stuck in a drain hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feast of Music] Reference

There's a fine swathe of cors anglais, bassoons and a contraforte, a newer contrabassoon with an even more resonant lower range.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

The work's main theme is announced in the opening bars, a pulse on the timpani smudged by ominous growls from low brass, strings, and stentorian contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [DCist] Reference

They were Pletnev's own compositions, the "Burlesque" and Finale from his Jazz Suite, whacky and witty escapades that gradually get a little out of control, as in an extended virtuosic solo for the contrabassoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories] Reference

The three women on stage with Braxton - Erica Dicker on violin, Sally Norris on piano, and Katherine Young on bassoon and contrabassoon - all seemed at least a generation younger and a step or two behind him in terms of inventiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phawker] Reference

The orchestral support under Spano's baton, moreover, was impeccable: It takes rare delicacy to play the important contrabassoon solo with, well, delicacy, but that was what Mike Gamburg achieved, and the massed tuttis were awesome in power and tonal richness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Under George Benjamin (conducting both pieces) the nine-piece band ratchets up both tension and humour with inventive percussion and woodwind sounds stretched across the range from piccolo to contrabassoon, as well as incurring Father Christmas 'wrath for drowning out his opening speech!.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

That one decrescendo,” late in the movement, “you can’t do on a contrabassoon.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference

McCall Smith, who plays the contrabassoon, said: "The Raploch orchestra is a wonderful idea.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In the beginning of the piece I pair them with the lowest-sounding woodwind instruments, the contrabassoon and the contrabass clarinet, and create a new kind of hybrid instrument, a sci-fi fantasy of a union between humans and machines. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome] Reference

SUSAN NIGRO contrabassoon (Cummings, Waddle).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

SUSAN NIGRO contrabassoon, in a free recital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference