… Gently Weeps. Yup that’s a Beatles song. There’s currently two issues I’m having with my bassoon:

• Normally the two longer joints of the instrument are held together by a metal pin when assembled. But the piece of metal that holds the pin on one joint has come off, meaning the two pieces won’t hold togetherproperly.
• One of the keys has lost the rubber cork lining underneath it (it fell off of its own accord, I was careful with it honest).

The former is more serious, and I will have to consider sending it off to be repaired. In the meantime, I am getting bugged by the music department to buy my own bassoon, instead of renting a school one. “Hmm”, I always say. “I’ll have to look into that”. Unfortunately these things don’t come cheap, at thousands of pounds for a decent new one. Hmm, I’ll have to look into that.