Favorite blog posts, November 2024
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Top 3 tips for doubling English horn
- International Clarinet Association (Julianne Kirk Doyle): Pedagogy Corner: Fostering New Traditions in Programming
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Favorite blog posts, April 2024
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Air/embouchure balance
Favorite blog posts, March 2017
- Saxophonist Kristen McKeon auspiciously launches her blog with a post on mindfulness in rehearsal [update: link dead].
- Flutist Jolene Harju uses a custom warmup sheet.
- Gentry Ragsdale-Szeto shares her journey as a woodwind doubler.
- Matt Stohrer offers some tips on navigating the modern saxophone market.
- Flutist Cynthia Ellis has an epiphany about the much-fretted-over “teardrop” lip.
- Jeff Cunningham gives advice to beginners about the “spitty” saxophone sound.
- Flutist Deanna Mathews Kilbourne suggests what to practice first.
- Joan Marti-Frasquier shares a quarter-tone fingering chart for baritone saxophone.
Favorite blog posts, June 2025
- Tammy Evans, flutist: Flute Dynamics: Quiet High Notes and Loud Low Notes
- earspasm – read. (Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet): Classifying the Bore Designs of Pro Clarinets: The good, the bad and the broken.
- Jenny Maclay (clarinet): Is your clarinet thumb rest in the optimal position?
- Best. Saxophone. Website. Ever. (Tracy Heavner): How to Select Saxophone Reeds
- The Flute Examiner (Keith Hanlon): Piccolo Lessons – Teaching Woodwind Doublers
- Musings from a Saxophonist… (Ellery Eskelin): Gear & Promo
- Dudukhouse – Dudukhouse Blog: Finally! No More Mental Math: Introducing Duduk Scale Explorer & Duduk Finder
Favorite blog posts, June 2017
- Clarinetist/doubler Gentry Ragsdale-Szeto finds ways to squeeze in practice on multiple instruments.
- Oboist Patty Mitchell discusses the energy musicians put into playing, teaching, and listening to themselves.
- Clarinetist and saxophonist Andrew Allen explores some difficulties and benefits of playing and teaching multiple instruments.
- Flutist Jolene Harju shares tips on keeping double-tongued notes resonant.
- Clarinetist Jenny Maclay doesn’t play rests, but does observe silences.
Favorite blog posts, May 2025
Just one to share this month:
- At the Woodwindfixer’s Bench (Jeff Dening): The Woodwindfixer Glossary: Overhaul
Favorite blog posts, October 2018
- Oboist Jennifer Stucki offers some suggestions and resources for keeping a reed log.
- Clarinetist Diana Haskell shares ideas on helping students avoid injury.
- Flutist Roderick Seed explains a comprehensive method for memorizing music.
- Anne Norman reports on the 2018 World Shakuhachi Festival.
- Oboist Nuria Cabezas demonstrates hand and finger stretches.