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Favorite blog posts, April 2026
ByBret Pimentel April 30, 2026April 30, 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
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Favorite blog posts, February 2026
ByBret Pimentel March 1, 2026
- The Flute Examiner (Patrícia Pires): Recovering from an injury: a retrospective around a flutist’s individual experience
  
  Tammy Evans, flutist: Why You’re Running Out of Air on the Flute (and How to Fix It)
  
  oboealli (Alli Gessner): Oboe 101: Do I need a third octave key?
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Favorite blog posts, February 2026
ByBret Pimentel January 31, 2026
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): How to get rid of extra air
- Jenny Maclay (clarinet): How to sing while playing clarinet
- earspasm – read. (Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet): Famous Jazz Clarinet Greats…and Their Clarinets
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Favorite blog posts, December 2025
ByBret Pimentel December 31, 2025
- International Clarinet Association (Shawn Copeland and Jackie McIlwain): Pedagogy Corner: Part 1 — Inhalation: When Balance Breathes For You
- earspasm – read. (Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet): I’m in High School. Is it worth it to get a Low C Bass Clarinet?
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Oboe 101: How much reed is too much reed?
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Favorite blog posts, October 2025
ByBret Pimentel October 31, 2025
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Oboe 101: How to play a good tuning A
- earspasm – read. (Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet): Do Gold Posts Make Any Difference?
- Clarinets by Copeland (Jonathan Copeland): What are the best clarinet pads?
- The Flute Examiner (Therese Wacker): Embouchure and it’s Placement on the Piccolo
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Favorite blog posts, November 2024
ByBret Pimentel December 1, 2024
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Top 3 tips for doubling English horn
- International Clarinet Association (Julianne Kirk Doyle): Pedagogy Corner: Fostering New Traditions in Programming
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Favorite blog posts, October 2024
ByBret Pimentel October 31, 2024October 31, 2024
- earspasm – read. (Michael Lowenstern, bass clarinet): Mailbag: Auditioning for a semi-pro orchestra?
- DoctorFlute (Angela McBrearty): Playing the First Notes of Your Solo
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): English horn support options
- Joan Martí-Frasquier (saxophone): What I Like About A Baritone Sax?
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Favorite blog posts, July 2023
ByBret Pimentel July 31, 2023July 31, 2023
- Kessler & Sons Music (David Kessler): A Selmer C* is a C* is a C* – or is it? [saxophone mouthpieces]
- DoctorFlute (Angela McBrearty): Experiment with Your Tone
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Do you know how to use the half-hole on the oboe?
- The Vintage Clarinet Doctor – Blog (Jeremy Soule): Why Buy Vintage Clarinets?
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Favorite blog posts, March 2023
ByBret Pimentel March 31, 2023March 31, 2023
- International Clarinet Association (Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr and Jean Raines): Reprints from the Early Years: Music for Clarinet by Women
- HeaneyMusings – Joshua Heaney (saxophone): More than a Rough Draft: Debussy’s Rapsodie Pour Orchestre et Saxophone
- The Babel Flute (Lea Pearson): Myth-Conceptions about Breathing
- Nadina Mackie (bassoon): Talent Drills for Orchestral Excerpts
- Julie A. Linder (clarinet): Clarinet basics: pinkies
- The Flute View (Lindsey McChord): Making a Headjoint – A Fusion of Science and Art
- oboealli (Alli Gessner): Do you know the 3 elements of fast articulation?
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