Cutout from an oil painting of an oboist by an anonymous painter from the first half of the 18th C.

Cutout from the painting of an unknown french oboist ca.1750 Unsigned, Stiftelsen Musikkulturens främjande, Stockholm

Cut out from an oil painting 'Der Oboenspieler' (1770) by Johann Joseph Zoffany(1734-1810)

Photograph of an original reed for an oboe from approximately 1800(See Galpin Journal August 1989- article by Geoffry Burgess and Peter Hedrick)

Rough sketch of the type of BAROQUE OBOE REED I use. This reed is part of a 2 piece setup and is placed onto a staple and into the oboe. The length and the conicity of the lower staple and the amount of staple in the oboe varies depending on the oboe and reed.

To see a higher resolution picture of the above baroque oboe,oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia reeds click on the graphic

Where it gets done