Favorite blog posts, May 2025
Just one to share this month:
- At the Woodwindfixer’s Bench (Jeff Dening): The Woodwindfixer Glossary: Overhaul
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Favorite blog posts, April 2026
- Jenny Maclay (clarinet): How to choose the best clarinet fingerings
- At the Woodwindfixer’s Bench (Jeff Dening): Help! My instrument got stolen!
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Chronic Octave Key Water
- The Flute Examiner (Keith Hanlon): Flute Olympics: Tactile Dissonance When Doubling
Favorite blog posts, October 2015
Lots of great woodwind blogging this month!
- Ben Britton shares some tips on jazz saxophone section playing. In a sort of related post, Bob Reynolds discusses note endings in section playing.
- Roderick Seed gives advice on getting a good middle E on the flute.
- Pauline at Cleonide discusses the (non?-)influence of instrument materials on tone. Unsurprisingly, the naysayers were quick to respond in the comments section with their unsupported arguments (as they have been on my own posts on this topic).
- Bassoonist Barry Stees offers some ideas for playing pianissimo.
- Clarinetist Jenny Maclay believes there is more to life than All-State auditions.
- Flutist Helen Bledsoe has a request for composers about articulation markings.
- Bassoonist Mike Macaulay shares thoughts on preparing orchestral parts.
- Saxophonist Peter Spitzer muses on the “bis” key.
- Bassoonist Jessi Vandagriff suggests raising your lesson fees.
- Saxophonist Bob Reynolds (again) relieves stress by practicing fundamentals.
Favorite blog posts, October 2023
Just one post to share this month:
- Nadina Mackie (bassoon): PLAYING BY HEART – memorizing bassoon concerti
Favorite blog posts, February 2025
- International Clarinet Association (Alexandra Doyle): Performance Anxiety: Not Just for Students
- the Operatic Saxophone (Mary Huntimer): Saxophone Mythbusters: Ibert’s Concertino da Camera is NOT Bebop
- Joan Martí-Frasquier (saxophone): Should I Change my Neck?
Favorite blog posts, August 2023
- Jennet Ingle | Oboist: Get Clear on the Money
- The Flute Examiner (Jessica Dunnavant): Quitting Time
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): 4 Sound Experiments for Oboists
Favorite blog posts, November 2014
Here’s good stuff from the woodwind blogs in November. The flutists and bassoonists were especially busy this month.
- Barry Stees offers some suggestions on cleaning up bassoon articulation.
- Tammy Evans Yonce gives a brief review/introduction of the cool “Glissando Headjoint.”
- Meerenai Shim offers some do-it-yourself ergonomic flute customizations.
- Betsy Sturdevant learns something about bassoon reeds from Elvis. (Sort of.)
- Cate Hummel makes a suggestion on what to do with flute embouchure “corners.”
- The Flute Journal blog is rerunning some of Chris Vadala’s woodwind doubling columns from Saxophone Journal. This one’s title says “extended” flute techniques, but it’s really more of a basic flute articulation lesson for doublers.
- Trent Jacobs shares a proposal for amplifying the bassoon while maintaining its natural tone.
- Clarinetist Sherman Friedland shares some thoughts on testing instruments.
- Oboist Jennet Ingle finds a silver lining in a bad gig.
- The Powell Flutes Flute Builder blog gives us a peek at the engraving process.