Martha Malkiewicz never got her stolen contrabassoon back. But this weekend, in a pair of classics concerts, the musician with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra started over with the next best thing: ...

Martha E. Malkiewicz had come to terms with the fact that her contrabassoon that disappeared from Kleinhans Music Hall nearly six years ago was gone for good.

Introductory description, etymology and origins -- Precursors of the bassoon in Praetorius and Mersenne and surviving specimens -- The bassoon in other reference books from the late seventeenth ...