{"id":15962,"date":"2025-01-13T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:35:21","slug":"philadelphia-principal-bassoonists-instrument-trapped-deceased-repairmans-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/01\/13\/philadelphia-principal-bassoonists-instrument-trapped-deceased-repairmans-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Principal Bassoonist\u2019s Instrument Trapped In Deceased Repairman\u2019s Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15963\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Philadelphia-Orchestra-Mark-Gigliottis-bassoon.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Gigliotti\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Philadelphia-Orchestra-Mark-Gigliottis-bassoon.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Philadelphia-Orchestra-Mark-Gigliottis-bassoon-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Philadelphia-Orchestra-Mark-Gigliottis-bassoon-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Philadelphia-Orchestra-Mark-Gigliottis-bassoon-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philadelphia Orchestra\u2019s Mark Gigliotti. (Photo: Jessica Griffin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Co-principal bassoonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra Mark Gigliotti\u2019s bassoon has been trapped in a repairman\u2019s shop in Yonkers, NY, since last November. The repairman died suddenly, leaving the instruments under his care locked up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the buzz:<\/strong> In November, <a href=\"https:\/\/philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org\/meet-your-orchestra\/mark-gigliotti\">Mark Gigliotti<\/a>\u2014co-principal bassoonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra\u2014brought his prized 1931 German bassoon to Nicholas Evans\u2019 repair shop in Yonkers. After a couple of weeks of silence from Evans\u2019 shop, Gigliotti learned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/philadelphia-orchestra-bassoon-mahler-symphony-mark-gigliotti-20250108.html\">the repairman had unexpectedly died in his sleep<\/a>. As Evans had no immediate family or will, it was unclear what would happen to the instruments under his care. Gigliotti hired a lawyer. Yet, he is still yet to be reunited with the instrument he\u2019s played for five decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the meantime\u2026:<\/strong> While nothing could replace Gigliotti\u2019s own instrument, he has managed to return to the stage thanks to a loan from Peter Schoenbach. The son of former Philadelphia Orchestra bassoonist Sol Schoenbach\u2014with whom Gigliotti studied\u2014, Peter Schoenbach is a bassoonist himself as well as former dean of the Curtis Institute of Music. Both Schoenbach and Gigliotti\u2019s bassoons were made in Germany during the 1930s, a golden era for bassoon-making.<\/p>\n<p>Schoenbach and Gigliotti have described having Gigliotti play Sol Schoenbach\u2019s bassoon as a way of bringing the legendary bassoonist back to life. What will happen to the instruments trapped in Yonkers remains to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-principal bassoonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra Mark Gigliotti\u2019s bassoon has been trapped in a repairman\u2019s shop in Yonkers, NY, since last November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":15963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3,255],"tags":[501,201],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Philadelphia-Orchestra-Mark-Gigliottis-bassoon.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15964,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}