Hello I'm Annie Brunson on behalf of Expert Village. We are learning about making musical
instruments out of everyday objects. Today we are going to learn how to make a oboe double
reed. The first that you do is find a straw, then the other thing we are going to need
are a pair of scissors. First thing you are going to do is flatten the end. It is not
going to flatting all the way but just flatting it out a little bit. Then you are going to
cut so it is a point on the end of the straw. So
now you have a point on the end of the straw. So lets just see how this sounds without doing
anything else to it. You are going to put it in your mouth and you are going to hold
it light. You don't squeeze it to tightly, hold it, and you got a nice sound to it. Well
not nice but a sound. So the next thing we are going to do is actually cut a couple of
holes. So what you want to do is still keep it on the same side where the point is showing.
We are going to make a little hole. Again just a little tiny snip. So it is just a very
little hole. You could see that then I'm going to cut another little hole. Just a little
bit further down. Again I'm using like little tiny triangles into the. Now I have two holes.
So I'm going to put my fingers over these two holes and I'm going to put the instrument
in my mouth. You could make all kinds of fun noises from this just by wiggling your fingers
over the open holes.