Year: 2019
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Favorite blog posts, December 2019
Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, December 2019 edition.
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Favorite blog posts, November 2019
Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, November 2019 edition.
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Review: Duets for the ‘Double-Reed Doubler’ by Gene Kaplan
A few years ago I reviewed Gene Kaplan’s Duos for Doublers, a set of duets for woodwind doublers playing flute, clarinet, and saxophone. I was pleased to hear from Gene again recently about his new Duets for the ‘Double-Reed Doubler.’ It contains seven duets in a variety of styles, with one doubler playing oboe, clarinet, …
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Sharp, flat, and natural symbols on Android and iOS devices
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in MusicianshipThere are lots of ways to handle music symbols like sharps (♯), flats (♭), and naturals (♮) on iPhone/iPad and Android devices: Not recommended: Use a pound/hash/number sign for sharp, and a lower-case b for flat. It’s ugly and unprofessional, and in some cases unclear, plus there’s not an obvious solution for natural. Spell it …
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MS Word music hack: Automatic sharps, flats, and naturals (Updated 2019)
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in MusicianshipTen years ago in 2009 I wrote a blog post about how to set up auto-complete sharp, flat, and natural symbols in Microsoft Word 2007 running on Windows Vista. Here’s an update for Word 2016 on Windows 10. Thanks to Ariel Detwiler for calling my attention to the need for an update. How it will …
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Favorite blog posts, October 2019
Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, October 2019 edition.