Favorite blog posts, November 2024

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.