David Hogan Smith, author of Reed Design for Early Woodwinds, Indiana University Press, 1992, in his home in San Francisco, California, February 2025
Daniel Deitch, noted woodwind repair and bassoon maker in his workshop in San Francisco, California, February 2025
Chip Owen, noted bassoon maker and repairman at the Fox Products factory in South Whitley, Indiana, in 2004
Bob Stevens, reed maker and cane grower in his Healdsburg, California, cane field in 2006
George Kelischek (left), historical instrument maker, with David Rachor, in his historical instrument workshop in Brasstown, North Carolina, in 2022.
Leslie Ross, bassoon maker in her former shop in New York city c.1995
Maarten Vonk, bassoonist and bassoon repairman in his shop in Amersfoort, Netherlands in 2004
Thomas Kiefer, retired bassoonist and instrument collector in Vienna, February 2024.
Denis Watel, clarinetist and clarinet collector at the collection of François Combouleive, France, 2019.
Will Peebles, bassoon professor at Western Carolina University and bassoon collector at his home holding his Boehm system bassoon made by James Dean Mackey (1935), Cullowhee, North Carolina, June 2020.
Leo van Oostrom, saxophonist and saxophone collector in his studio in Amsterdam, February 2024.
Francis Wood, bagpipe maker and player in his home in London, May 2024.
Bill Fetcher, instrument repairman and cattle rancher playing his Conn #177 (1922) Eb contrabass Sarrusophone, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, September 2023.
Buffet-Crampon metal contrabassoon from the collection of Bruno Kampmann, Paris, March 2022
Marten Postma, saxophone collector, and repairman, playing his reconstruction of an Adolphe Sax 1st generation saxophone, March 2022
Sylvain Sérougne, instrument repairman, holding Couesnon Eb bass Sarrusophone, Paris, March 2022
Bassoons examined at the Brussels MIM, March 2022
Thomas Reil, instrument repairman and collector, playing an early 20th Century Kohlert bassoon, March 2022
Gayle & Phil Neuman, historical instrument makers, at their studio near Portland, Oregon, March 2018
Joel Robinson (left), historical instrument maker, with Jim Kopp, Portland, Oregon, March 2018
Martin Praetorius, historical instrument maker, Celle, Germany, May 2018
Volker Kernbach (left), historical reed maker, and Sabine Hasse-Moeck, of Moeck Recorders, Celle, Germany, May 2018
David Rachor conducting research in hazmat suit at the Landesmuseum Württenberg, Stuttgart, June 2019
Dr. Bryant Hichwa, physicist and author of the computer programs for this website, at the MET in New York, 2009
Ricardo Döringer, bassoonist, reed maker and conductor, in his office in Munich, Germany, 2000
Olivier Cottet with cat, France, June 2018
Charles Koster, period bassoonist, at his studio in San Gabriel, California, November 2018
Ricardo Rapoport in Angoulême, France, 1996
Josep Borràs at Kloster Michaelstein Bassoon Conference, Germany, October 2015
Jim Kopp (left), Roger Birnstingl (center), & David Rachor at the Waterhouse Library, UK, 2012
Thomas Donati (left) and Jean-Marie Heinrich in the Donati Cane Field, France, June 2018
Peter Wolf (right), David Rachor at Guntram Wolf Bassoon Workshop, Kronach, Germany, August 2016
Marc Echochard in his studio in Tonne, France, 2000
Walter Bassetto (left), Sebastian Werr (center), & Lyndon Watts, at the Bassetto Workshop, Frauenfeld, Switzerland, 2011
Mathew Dart in his workshop in London, UK, 2000
Laurent Verjat in his workshop near Troyes, France, 2000
Dr. Gunther Joppig at Kloster Michaelstein Bassoon Conference, Germany, October 2015
Henk de Wit, Netherlands, 2006
The Henk de Wit bassoon collection before its dispersion, 1999
Hans Mons playing his quart bass dulcian, Belgium, 2009
Toru Sonoda, bagpiper maker, at his workshop in Wartenberg, Germany, 2016
Petr Číp, Czech woodwind maker, in his home near Valašske Meziríči, Czech Republic, 2016
Rainer Weber at his home in Bayerbach, Bavaria, Germany, 2012
Rufus Acosta, historical woodwind maker, at Indiana Early Double Reed Workshop, USA, 2013
Herbert Myers at his studio at Stanford University, USA, 2013
Hugh Cooper in his studio at the University of Michigan, c.1985
Andrew Lamb, curator of Bate Collection, Oxford, UK, 2012