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Nearly forty
years have been passed since I started to play the bassoon. During
the past forty years, I have wished to familiarize many people
with this fine instrument, and I have been looking for ways in
which I could contribute to its diffusion as a former student,
a performer and an instructor. Owing to its characteristic tone
color, its warm sonorities and wide compass, the bassoon is absolutely
essential for solo performances, chamber music, and especially
wind ensembles and symphony orchestras, which are very popular
in Japan.
However, most
bassoons are too expensive for organizations such as schools,
as well as individuals. Besides, there have been many bassoons
that do not have good tone color or evenness of intonation relative
to their price, and I have regarded price as one of the most frequent
hindrances to bassoon familiarization. Therefore, in order to
overturn the fixed image that the bassoon cannot be familiarized
due to its expensive price, I have started making my own bassoons,
which have good quality and are inexpensive. Over the past ten
years, I have continued to develop my bassoon through trial and
error. Today I am able to provide several types of bassoons that
can meet various demands such as those for beginners or professional
performers, instruments that are played in approximately thirty
countries around the world. It is my pleasure to be able to support
many bassoon aficionados in this way.
Kind regards,
Yuhiko Takeda
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Yuhiko
Takeda
Graduated
from Faculty of Music, Wind and Percussion Instruments,
with a Masters Degree from the School of Music at Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts & Music, otherwise
known as Tokyo Gei-Dai. During his student days at the
University, he has started serving with the Tokyo Kosei
Wind Orchestra as Bassoonist. He also studied at the University
of Music and Performing Arts Munich, following which after
studying, he joined the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He started to make his own bassoons after sixteen years
service with the Tokyo Philharmonic. |
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Tokyo 164-0002, JAPAN
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