First you have your basic bassoon, but this one's electric! It plugs into an amp so the sound really cooks! With distortion, groaning and grinding tones.
Next you have your sax bassoon that is a hybrid of the 2 instruments mixed with keys and higher sounds.
Then you have the boardisoon that features a keyboard that you play and blow into creating layered tones which is my favorite instrument.
Then you have the bassoon guitar or bassoon harp. Kind of a mix with plucked strings and levers you pull to alter the horn's pitch. Also the Bocal has numerous gravity pitches.
Next you have the reason I like St. Patrick's Day. The bagpipe bassoon. The funnest of this series of patents. The bag puffs up when you blow into the 3 reeds and a horn is attached to the bag.
Then you have the straw bassoon. You play like 5 flutes with a few simple keys and the sound comes out the 2 bottom straws. One high, one low. Sounds like a spitting straw flute.
Dig this one below. A bassoon whistle. It's deep sounding whistle with the rubber extenders create a very vivid tone with arpeggio riffs.
The bassoon chimer you blow into and press the various keys and the chimer rocks back and forth making dinging noises keeping rhythm with the songs. You can turn off the triangle (chimer) if you want when playing.
The Horn bassoon is played with switches you pull making the 7 notes. This one probably wouldn't sound that great as it looks like a Dr. Seuss invention that got run over by a car.
The bassoon trumpet is basically a trumpet with a much lower pitch. and is played like a bassoon with the sound coming up through the top.
The Bassoon Blower features 2 bocals for high and low pitch. If played both at the same time they sound wavy.
The Bassoon Beater below features only 4 working keys that hammer onto the rubber drum (in white) that when blown into sounds like a rattle. Sound goes downward in this exception.
The violisoon is a hybrid of a violin played with a reed that you strum and blow into making weeping sounds.
The Cellosoon is also a hybrid of a cello and bassoon. Same basic idea. Only this one has more vibrato in it.
Finally there's the modern version bassoon that I like to call the Synthisoon. A hybrid of synthesizer and bassoon with a much more simple structure. You plug into an amp and jam out with any tone you want. You can create your own and have the basic bassoon on steroids. Also has a pipe-lid on top to vacuum out the static so you can make it as heavy or soft as the player requires.
Check back for new material. Also a couple vimeo tracks feature these patents will be on my blog later. Also, I'd like to see and hear these patents one day.
