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Photos 1 & 2. Two views of Heckel Bassoon #11536 disassembled for oiling. From Lame Bryce, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Photos 3 and 4: Two views of "Busking" (playing for tips) in Europe, taken in the mall area surrounding St. Stephens Church in Vienna last August. Following the Graz IDRS Congress, by Richard Meek of Lubbock, Texas.
Photo 3. Elina and Jermo Korhonen, Metsolanke 9, Turku, Finland. They were leisurely returning to Finland in their camper and had stopped for a few days outside Vienna. Jarmo is principal bassoonist with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, and Eline is a student at the Turku Conservatoire.
Photo 4. Karl Syrjala, Hollolankatu 3B 38, Lahti, Finnland. Karl is solo bassoonist in the Lahti Stadt-Orchester and a former student of Karl Ohlberger, Prof. Zeman, and Emanuel Elola. Heikki Wikla, Macheli Ninkatu 12-HA11, 00100 Helsinki 10, Finnland. Heikki is a former student of Ohlberger, Juhani Tapaninen, and Prof. Emanuel Elola. (Emanuel Elola is the former principal bassoonist of the Finland Radioorchester, and teaches along with Sven-Erik Paananen at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.)
Photo 5. A picture of Otto Eifert's bassoon camp in Seoul, Korea, August, 1984. Concerning the camp, Otto writes: "I had a great time there with 52 students at the new School of Music in Anseong, about 50 miles south of Seoul."
Photos 6 & 7. Two "views" of bassoonists in "action": Number 6 from Sylvain Lhiussieur and Number 7 from Sol Schoenbach.
Photo 8. From Ron Vachor, Denton, Texas, comes a picture of a firm in Lewisville, Texas, that may be the answer to all our prayers!