The 57-year-old is one of a small remaining group of professional Dutch reed cutters, harvesting, cleaning and drying reed that is used to thatch houses. They're practitioners of an ancient trade ...

He’s added outboard effects and a piercing Chinese double-reed horn called the suona to his tool kit, which he employs in a variety of mostly improvised settings where idioms may clash (assuming ...

Wout van de Belt cuts reed in the national parc Weerribben-Rieden near Belt-Schutsloot, Netherlands, Friday, April 6, 2018. While their profession is ancient, reed cutters have moved with the times.