Bassoon First Aid Doctor Reamer / Mandrel

Bassoon First Aid Doctor Reamer / MandrelThis book helps keep your bassoon in tip top shape and helps to solve some common issues. It shows how to put your bassoon together, keep it in brilliant condition, detect minor faults and how to do minor on the spot repairs & adjustments and, posibly most importantly, when to take your bassoon to the repairer. Some of the problems that this book covers are: The crook (bocal) wobbles Not being able to play up the octave Not being able to play C# below

Includes everything you need to make reeds

The cane is 118mm long (if required 120mm cane can be supplied but this may take longer and you will need to contact us to make this special order)

used to scrape the reed and cut the cane

Notes in the top octave are "fuzzy" or unresponsive

You give up some of the nuance a hand-finishing maker brings

Reed Knife

Some players genuinely prefer that predictability

profiled & shaped (K2) contrabassoon cane

It shows how to put your bassoon together

Clear line drawings present one simple thought per page

Most oboe reeds aren't made for you and your instrument and so they often do not work as well as they could

Shape 1A - used by most professional bassoonists