Making Oboe Reeds is Easy! Reed

Making Oboe Reeds is Easy! ReedMaking oboe reeds is very easy! Fiddily yes, but difficult no. This oboe reed making guide has 83 photos of individual steps making it simple and clear to follow its instructions. With a few simple tools (no expensive or complicated machinery) and some gouged, shaped and profiled cane (which you can buy from HERE) making your first oboe reed is genuinely easy! It is fiddly and it is likly that the first couple will go slightly off course but you will

Can be transported in your pocket or your instrument case

placed in between the blades of a reed whilst scraping to reduce the risk of the reed splitting and to provide stability when editing reeds

One of the harder things about oboe playing is that the right reed for you today might not be the right reed for you in six months

These come with a griping part

5-11mm & it has been gouged to 0

but it's particularly responsive across the bassoon's lower and middle registers

while also helping to solve some common issues

With a few simple tools (no expensive or complicated machinery) and some gouged

extra low C touch

Made: Hand-made in Germany by a Munich Philharmonic contrabassoonist

For a UK-made alternative with a different house style

5 pieces of Rieger gouged