multireedist

A woodwind doubler (or reed doubler) is a multi-instrumentalist musician who can play instruments from more than one woodwind family (clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons, flutes, or recorders). Folk or ethnic woodwind instruments (e.g. panflute, irish flute) may also be included in this description. A player who plays two instruments from the same family (e.g., oboe and English horn, clarinet and bass clarinet, flute and piccolo) is also sometimes called a doubler. Longtime classical music practice has expected the non-principal player in a section to double on common auxiliary instruments: piccolo or alto flute for flutists, English horn for oboists, bass clarinet or E♭ clarinet for clarinetists. In commercial work, including Hollywood film scores and Broadway musicals, the practice ev...