"WHAT CAN I SAY?"

Michael Trentacosti


REED . . . that little slice of life, that proportioned piece of cane, a variable nightmare! Ever changing and dissolving, aging. The Controller, l the controlled.
How I wish just once!. . just once! I could control you . . . Reed!
The very heart of you is enough to upset the whole of my tone. Your grain can reduce my Bassoon to a sniveling bundle of sticks!
Too Hard, Too Soft!
How Cruel you can be!
A Bassoonist's dream, that"ONE REED", that non-descript entity which constitutes a reed with life, zeal, a resilience present only in a rubber band, life as long as an elephant.
A Reed that will NOT change with the very slightest temperature fluctuations.
The very act of playing you, Reed, is Destructive.
"But, WHAT CAN I SAY?"


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