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This is a thread of interest to barely anyone, but that’s what Twitter’s all about, right? So, this is my bassoon. I’ve had it for 30-odd years. I don’t play it very often because there’s not much call for it. 1/5 
But occasionally I get it out of its case and have a little tootle. 2/5
Thing about the bassoon is, it’s a mighty sounding thing that you sometimes want to just blast through a huge guitar amp. But you can’t, really, because it’s an acoustic instrument, and y’know, feedback nightmare. 3/5
But I stumbled across this thing. You take the bassoon crook (1) and you solder an attachment onto it (2), drill a hole through the attachment, and (3) screw in a piezoelectric mic made by this guy in Australia: @piezobarrel. 4/5
And now I can play Ivor The Engine through a Marshall amp turned up to 11. Which, as I'm sure you all understand, is really, really useful – not just for me, but for society as a whole. 5/5
Christ. I just watched the first episode of Ivor The Engine and have become a blubbering wreck.
