Dr Downing's Reed Doctors - Bassoon, Oboe, Sax and Clarinet - how to scrape, clip and generally adjust your reeds for best performance.

Do you ever have reed problems?

Click on your instrument's Reed Doctor.

Clarinettist's Reed Doctor - how to make clarinet reeds work.Dr Downing's Oboe Reed Doctors - how to scrape, clip and generally adjust your reeds for best performance.Bassoon Reed Doctor - make your bassoon reeds work properly.Sax Reed Doctor - how to adjust saxophone reeds for best performance.

by Sandra Downing & Peter Moore

The Reed Doctors are troubleshooters.   They don't show you how to make reeds. When a reed plays up in rehearsal or concert, your Reed Doctor could get you out of trouble.

Don't throw reeds away too soon.  With a little "carpentry" or clipping, you can give your favourite reed a new lease of life.

All commercial reeds are, broadly speaking, blanks.  In any box of ten clarinet or sax reeds, for instance, only one or two will play with little trouble.  Cane being a natural substance will vary whilst the machine's cut will not.  If you know what to do, you can make the rest of your reeds work just as well.

Commercial bassoon and oboe reeds are costly.  You want to get the maximum use out of them.  The Reed Doctors help you to make your reed suit you and your instrument.

British Double Reed Society reviewer Graham Salter says of the Oboist's Reed Doctor: ".....Any pamphlet which encourages young players to think about the quality of their reeds is doing a good job.  Clear line drawings present one simple thought per page."

How to make bassoon reeds

This book DOES show you how - with over 80 full colour pictures

 

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