Number sign, sharp, or tic-tac-toe?
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A farewell to woodwind playing
Well, it has been a great ride studying, teaching, and performing on the instruments of the woodwind family. Thanks everyone for your support here at bretpimentel.com.I’ll leave this website up for now, but I hope you will all check out my new project:
ReedCast™ scientific reed forecasts on Alexa
I was hoping to announce this a week ago, on the anniversary of the ReedCast™’s debut, April 1, 2015,but things got a little delayed. Anyway, you can now get your guaranteed-accurate, highly scientific ReedCast™ on your Alexa device. Check it out!
You can, of course, still get your classic ReedCast™ on the web.
Lesson bingo
A little something to keep myself entertained on long days of private lessons. Um, good luck?
Reedcast™ version 2.0
A couple of years ago I introduced my Reedcast™ tool on this site, which uses my proprietary software code to predict reed quality for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone based on environmental factors:
I have spent the past few months compiling and studying as much research as I could gather about environmental factors’ effects on woodwind reeds, and developing an algorithm to process this information into reed quality “forecasts.” It’s not perfect, of course, but so far I have found it to do a surprisingly satisfactory job.
Today I’m pleased to announce the release of version 2.0. Reedcast™ is now more accurate than ever before, and has a polished new look as well. Go try it out, and have a great reed day!
That is AWESOME
I remember a computer program several decades ago that would pronounce aloud characters as they were typed; “#” was pronounced “sharp”.
I’ve worked with musical instruments (Synthesizers) as well as computer office equipment. The # was called the “Octothorp”
by Sharp Fax machine service manuals.
Wikipedia says the outside of the USA, if you say “Pound Sign” people think of £ British Pound Sterling.
Great observation Bret! After comparing multiple images, it’s quite clear concerning the differences between the symbols. I do have a few students who call sharp signs, hash tags. This should help them out.
Hm. I had not thought about that Bret. Quite important come to think about it though. Love your blog and thanks again for letting me use your fingering graphics in the 33 video guide for saxophone basic fingerings. I think I’m sending a few new readers over to you as well:)
The URL for my entire website has changed though. I did a re-design and decided to go with another URL.
The guide looks exactly the same but you’ll find it here now: http://saxhub.com/saxophone-fingering-chart/
Merry Christmas!