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Tuba playing legend Arnold Jacobs developed the breath builder to help wind players develop their sound and improve their breathing. Covered in detail on Playwithapro.com by trumpet player Kristian Steenstrup this video serves as a taster for wind players and teachers to explore this fully. Tom Hardy (see tomhardybassoon.com) demonstrates the use of this device.

Weber Bassoon Concerto in F Major Op 75, Tom Hardy - Bassoon, Dorking Philharmonia, conducted by Paul Newbold, 18th March 2017. Leader Alex Postlethwaite. Leitzinger Model 1 Professional Bassoon.

Each week I see bassoons where the whisper key mechanism (crook key and rods connecting to E plate) are not set up properly. This leads to problems with low notes.

For those of you making reeds from cane you buy that is already gouged shaped and profiled, this is the main video in this series for you to watch. It shows you exactly how to form the tube and put on the wires without splitting the cane.

This video shows how to use a profiling machine to take a gouged or gouged and shaped piece of cane to a full gouged, shaped and profiled product which can then easily be made into a bassoon reed.

This video takes a reed blank and shows you how to cut the tip and use a tip profiler for the finishing touches.

After splitting your tubes you will want a pregouger to do the hard work of removing much of the pith and material to save your blade on your gouging machine and save time.

Once you have pre-gouged your cane you will want to get the gouging step done and with the minimum of effort. As always a sharp blade plays a big part in this.

Once you have your gouged cane you will want to shape the cane to the dimensions you like. This video goes over the different results you can get with different shapes and shows you FAST shaping using a straight shaper.

To increase your success rate making reeds, use a hardness tester to find out if the cane will be the right hardness for your reed style. Or adapt the shapes you use to different hardnesses of cane for an even better success rate.

How to make a bassoon reed from tube cane - first video in series from start to finish of making reeds. Here showing how to choose the right diameter and splitting the tubes

Intro Video on How to Make a Bassoon Reed from scratch. First in a series of videos outlining the steps taken at www.bassoonreeds.co.uk to make a reed.

Rick Yoder and Tom Hardy musicmatters-bassoon.blogspot.co.uk talk reeds! Making new reeds work for you, handling dodgy notes, reed care and much more. Many thanks to camera and editing from bassoonist Alex Platt

Before you get out the reed knife make sure your instrument is airtight!

Reed Tips tomhardybassoon.com Tips Video 3 how to make a reed less buzzy

Reed Tips tomhardybassoon.com Tips Video 2

Reed Tips tomhardybassoon.com Tips Video 1

Reeds - tomhardybassoon.com Introduction to tips videos

My new apprentice! Five year old grandson