For the awesome people outside Wilfrid Laurier University: you should know that we have one of the strongest double reed faculties in the country–and one of the most ridiculous. This website, for example. What other oboe studio can boast a webcomic? Dick is always telling us that it is unusual for all of the oboists to be friends, but we have oboe parties; the bassoonists have Vivaldi parties (in which they rope in a bunch of string players and play Vivaldi Concertos and eat pie), I’m starting a monthly double-reeds-and-friends curry night, some of us tote our reed equipment back and forth between studios to hang out…the list goes on!

Most lately in the “awesome things the double reeds do” catalogue was reeddeer! Yes, that’s right. Reindeer, made out of reeds.

Check it out!

My reeddeer:

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