“Barton Cane LITERALLY changed my life.
Instead of many hours over many days — profiling, shaping, and forming (destroying several pieces of cane along the way), — making five perfect blanks in 20 minutes is my new normal.
Game Changer!!!
Not only has it saved me the literal physical pain-in-the-behind that is profiling, making reeds with Barton Cane has become so easy and simple I almost (ALMOST) look forward to it.

The quality of the cane and the consistency of the processing has upped my success rate of performance-ready reeds to around 90%. WILD, amirite?

And with their precision profiling, there is a much smaller chance of me messing up my beautiful new reeds in the finishing process. In about a week, I can go from blanks to the stage. I’ve used reeds I made from Barton Cane as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and on tour the world over, playing very new and very old music alike. The tone is consistent, the vibrations are free, and most of all, I got my life back!! 10/10 would recommend.”

Rebekah Heller is a multi-hyphenate artist: a bassoonist of both highly notated and improvised music, a conductor, composer, educator, curator, arts leader, organizer, and thought partner.