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Reed Rage - the bassoon quartet we have all been waiting for - is available for recitals, events and educational work.

"The bassoon is one of my favourite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball . . . I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon." Frank Zappa 

Definition: Reed Rage. An affliction commonly found in double reed players, especially bassoonists. Less serious than Reed Neurosis suffered by oboe players. It involves leaping up and down on reeds that don't work or stabbing them into music stands.

rage: [with modifier ] an instance of aggressive behavior or violent anger caused by a stressful or frustrating situation : e.g.reed rage

ORIGIN Middle English (also in the sense [madness] ):

from Old Frenchrage (noun), rager (verb), from a variant of 

Latin rabies  (see rabies ).