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Basic working principles of reed instruments are well-known and resulting models are able to produce realistic synthesised sounds. This is particularly true for single-reed instruments such as the clarinet or the saxophone. Double reed instruments however have specific geometric properties which can call in question some simplistic hypothesis which are justified for single-reed instruments. Some models have been proposed in the literature to try to investigate the effect of the specificity introduced by the double reed. Experimental data is however more scarce than the models. Our current experimental work aims at characterising the double reed and its possible differences from the single reed. As a first approach, the volume flow in the reed, the pressure difference across the reed, and the reed opening area are measured in the static regime, and their coupling is investigated.