Bret Pimentel, woodwinds

Answers to questions submitted for the blog's 10th anniversary.

Answers to questions submitted for the blog's 10th anniversary.

Answers to questions submitted for the blog's 10th anniversary.

Answers to questions submitted for the blog's 10th anniversary.

The saxophone's lowest notes can be notoriously unresponsive. For the best chance at successful low notes, here's what you will need.

Send me your questions to help celebrate your favorite woodwind blog's 10-year anniversary.

Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, April 2018 edition.

Over a year ago I wrote about responding to free or underpaid gig “offers.” A commenter asked a fair question, which has haunted me since: I was wondering how much of this still applies when taking on gigs as a student. I’ve wrestled with this a bit and I’m not sure I have a real answer, ...

If you have read my reviews of the D’Addario clarinet and jazz alto and tenor saxophone mouthpieces, you won’t be surprised to learn that I’m a big fan of their new classical alto saxophone mouthpiece, too. (As with the last several reviews, D’Addario sent me some mouthpieces at no cost, with the possibility but not ...

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.