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Recently I got an email from a reader of my blog on the Way of Cane Machine Service site concerning my article, Two Factors That...

I recently saw a question online on the Facebook Double Reed Market Place asking what my charges are for bassoon reed machine service. My...

Observations from the Way of Cane Bassoon Reed Service July 23, 2023 In my continuing articles on bassoon reed machine repair and...

This is a post I had on my Facebook page, from November of 2020, for the book before I started this website. I thought I should post it...

The Way of Cane Reed Machine Service Recently I received a Pfeifer single profiler to service that had an extreme problem I had never...

The Way of Cane— Missing pages I recently received a message from a new reader of The Way of Cane telling me that his copy was missing a...

In April of last year (2022) I had promised an article on setting up a tip profiler either when changing patterns (templates) or after...

For readers of my book, The Way of Cane or any interested bassoonist, I wanted to announce that Reeds ‘n Stuff has produced a new tip...

Since retiring from the Houston Symphony in 2019, I have been servicing many different makes of reed making machines in various states of...

Dear Way of Cane readers and bassoon friends. I wanted to post the various machines I've worked on during the last several months....

To the readers of my book, The Way of Cane, or anyone else interested, I want to announce that Georg Rieger now has my custom pattern...

Here is a posting of some recent work I did on a Kunibert gouger that had a lot of miles on it. It arrived partially disassembled and...

Three profilers my dear friend Professor Rodney Ackmann (University of Oklahoma) sent for servicing: two Pfeifer profilers (center and...

Continuing my postings of examples of bassoon reed making machines I have serviced here is an example of a no-name gouging machine that...

I'm listing some of the restoration projects I've done in the past year or so since I retired from the Houston Symphony. For starters,...

Many thanks to my friend and fellow bassoonist, Lewis Kirk (https://www.lyricopera.org/.../lyric-opera.../lewis-kirk/), for his extremely...

With 29 versions of the text spanning 12 years it was bound to happen— a mistake (I'm guessing there are more....): the fingering chart...

Originally posted on Facebook, The Way of Cane page, September 27, 2020 The bassoon in literature— The Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson...