So once a year, Dick pulls out his “oboe mouthpiece”–a teeny tiny mouthpiece with a teeny-tiny single reed–and tells us about how he used to bring it on tour and tell the other musicians it was “just in case” or whip it out and warm up on it to scare the pants off them (because it sounds reed-iculous). But it’s adorable, as all tiny inanimate objects are, so I went on a hunt to see what the internet had to say.  Every post I found was filled with scorn and derision and none of the “Awwww, lookatthetinymouthpiece” that I first felt.  Philistines.

I also discovered that you can still buy them for bassoon. Jesus. Lizard. What.

I have also heard tell, in my wanderings of “emergency reed tape” and can’t for the life of me wrap my head around it. Does anyone know more?

And I know it’s mean to laugh, but this site makes me giggle.