When Nicole Buetti first picked up the bassoon, it was supposed to be a not-so-secret weapon in woodwind-on-woodwind combat.

She was 11 years old and stuck playing the flute alongside her school orchestra’s premiere flautist, who kept jabbing her with that sharp little tube. Probably accidentally, but who knows?

“And then I saw a bassoon, and I thought, ‘I could take her out with that,’ ” Buetti recalled with a laugh. Tags Children Clark County performing arts Vancouver Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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