New blog

Today makes ten years since I started the blog. At the five-year mark I did a little retrospective, and I don’t think there’s much need to do it again. Basically the things I was excited about and proud of then are the things I’m excited about and proud of now. Other than publishing my book, which grew largely out of this blog, it has mostly been more of the same: another 250 or so posts, another few hundred musicals added to the doubling list, new and updated web tools and resources for musicians, and of course lots of comments, emails, donations, and other happy connections with woodwind players around the world. I hope you will continue to read, engage, and of course make music.

A few weeks ago I put out a request for questions from my readers. I got some good ones, and here are some answers:

• Q&A: Instrument purchases
• Q&A: Voicing
• Q&A: Reeds
• Q&A: Woodwind doubling
• Q&A: The big picture