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Free Stuff on This Site

• Double Reed Ring Tones
• Humor
• MP3 Drones
• MP3 Performances
• Bassoon
• Printed Music for Double Reeds and Friends (All)
• Printed Music for Double Reeds and Friends (Christmas)
• Videos
• Bassoon Performances

Free Stuff from IDRS

Visit the  International Double Reed Society Web Site for these items and much more:

• Bassoon Fingerings
• Double Reed Podcasts
• IDRS WWW Reed Project
• MIDI Drones and MIDI files (at idrs.org) Most of these files are accompaniments, sort of a "music minus one."
• Oboe Accompaniments
• Bassoon Accompaniments
• Orchestra Excerpts for Oboe, English Horn, Bassoon, and Contrabassoon
• Programs from International Double Reed Society Conferences
• Printed Music. By Charles-David Lehrer
  
• Publications by the International Double Reed Society. This is the most comprehensive collection of articles avaiable on the web for double reed players.
• Streaming Videos. Several videos available, most for members only. Public access videos were funded in part from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
  

Free Stuff on other Sites

• More MIDI. Files from various locations. These are not accompaniments.
• Online metronome
• Printed Music 
• Ringtones 
• Sound Files
• Books or Pamphlets

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Drones (MP3)

This is a collection of drones, each of which is about 2 minutes in length. An organ sound rich in overtones is used to help with tuning. These are not pure tones, so you will here some pulsing as the overtones move in and out of phase. This more closely simulates a true playing condition than pure tones.

You can download them by right clicking on these links and saving them ("save target as") on your computer or you can play them by just left clicking the link. 

C | C# | D | Eb | E | F | F# | G | Ab | A | Bb | B

Be sure to read the section on how to use drones.

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Printed Music on the IDRS Web site. Much of this is restricted to IDRS members. See Printed Music

• The New Barret Oboe Method, by Charles-David Lehrer
• The New Brod Oboe Method by Charles-David Lehrer
• The New Garnier Oboe Method by Charles-David Lehrer
• The Double Reed Archaeologist by Charles-David Lehrer
• The New Ferling 48 by Charles-David Lehrer
• 24 Wind Quintets of Antoine Reicha by Charles-David Lehrer

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Off-site Books or Pamphlets

Introduction to Oboe. Paulu, Catherine and Shiltz, Grover. Let’s Play Oboe. South Whitley: Fox Products Corporation, 2002

Introduction to English Horn. Shiltz, Grover. Let’s Play English Horn. South Whitley: Fox Products Corporation, 2000.

Introduction to Bassoon. Fox, Hugo. “Let’s Play Bassoon.” South Whitley: Fox Products Corporation, 2000. 

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Products for a Fee

Ergopost (Ergonomic Handrest Post for Bassoon)

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