No, it is just you, you and your tools, cutting a bamboo-like piece ... Mellon University essentially have two majors: oboe performance and reed-making. The oboist displayed a box of some of ...

Binkley, Central Michigan University’s oboe professor, was leading an intermediate reed-making mini camp for high ... and the primary tools used are knives, emery boards or nail files and ...

Cutting and trimming and binding and shaving reeds consumes a good deal of your days, while other musicians are practicing and regular people are having fun or making love. If you play the oboe ...

complementary bassoon and oboe repairs and adjustments by Jake Vidourek, reed making, and plenty of friendship! It also provides an information session from Chair of the Department of Music, Dr. Chris ...

He had a water bubble in his keys. The tap was to dislodge it. It ended up breaking the reed! But second oboe, Rosie Jenkins, was ready to jump in and save the day. In a heartbeat, the principal ...