#51 - Oboe Reeds

The Boring Talks by BBC

Apr 20, 202018:02Comedy

Gouging, scraping and chopping. The reporter Chloe Veltman shows us the painstaking art of making an oboe reed, and how it can be the difference between sounding like a singing nightingale, or a belligerent duck. James W...

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