Stephen Caplan embraces plastic oboes. Related: Elizabeth Brown lists some signs that your wooden oboe has a crack.
Clarinetist Miranda Dohrman gives advice on building a freelance career.
Jennifer Mackerras provides solutions for recorders slipping and sliding around in your hands.
Peter Westbrook shares a 2003 interview with Herbie Mann, covering aspects of jazz flute playing, woodwind doubling, and more.
Oboist Jennet Ingle offers some suggestions on a good mindset for solo performance.
Clarinetist Jenny Maclay lists some reasons you might not be improving as much as you would like.

Favorite blog posts, September 2018

Heather Roche shares a list of easy/reliable clarinet multiphonics. Useful information here for composers and performers.
Eric Schultz examines the history of multiple tonguing on single reed instruments.
Jenny Maclay explores clarinet orchestral excerpts. (Also consider enlisting for the October Uhl Boot Camp.)
Flutist Kelly Wilson explains the anatomy and function of the arms.
Jennet Ingle discusses producing a resonant sound on the oboe.
Oboist Nuria Cabezas demonstrates some stretches for musicians.
Flutist Jessica Dunnavant deals with performance nerves.
Ariel Detwiler shares thoughts on fitting into a band or orchestra bassoon section.
Patty Mitchell spends some time away from her oboe.
Hannah Haefele offers some suggestions for warming up on the flute on a tight schedule.

Favorite blog posts, July 2018

Saxophonist Ben Britton offers some hints on overtones. (Related: my review of Ben’s overtone book.)
Flutist Nicole Riner provides some bullet points on self-auditing your private studio’s business model, in two parts.
Clarinetist Jenny Maclay reminds us about proper head position.
Erin Nichols compares available bass flute models. (Sort of a commercial post, but there is useful information.)

Saxophonist Ben Britton explores the connection between tone and intonation. He also gives a nice introduction to the desperately under-taught art of swing articulation.
Woodwind doubler Ed Joffe compares “part” players and true musical artists.
John Reeks examines the history surrounding the use of clarinets in the Beatles song “When I’m Sixty-Four.”
Oboist Stephen Caplan discusses staying comfortable and healthy while sitting for extended periods of playing music.
Tammy Evans Yonce and Misty Theisen provide suggestions on planning a small flute festival or “flute day.”
Jenny Maclay gives thorough advice on the clarinet’s altissimo register.

Flutist Jolene Madewell improves her articulation with understanding of how the tongue moves.
Patty Mitchell discusses the oboe and getting into college.
David Pierce gives brief summaries of some books on bassoon reedmaking.
Saxophonist James Barger explains a method of vibrato development using a mobile app.
Clarinetist Jenny Maclay is organizing a Kroepsch studies boot camp for June.
Nicole Riner gives piccolo advice.

Flutist Nicole Riner lists extended techniques with some sample repertoire and practice tips.
Saxophone mouthpiece reviewer extraordinaire Steve Neff explains how to test a mouthpiece thoroughly.
Oboist Patty Mitchell offers a somber reminder that sexual harassment is an issue in the music world, too.
Clarinetist Liz Aleksander outlines a methodical approach to tuning.
Bassoonist Nadina Mackie Jackson gives some perspective on teachers and teaching.
The “Curious Clarinetist” tells a satirical tale of new instruments.
Cynthia Ellis and Cate Hummel provide tips on playing the piccolo.
Clarinetist Jenny Maclay shares ideas for mastering a new repertoire piece besides just practicing.
Oboist Jennet Ingle discusses the importance of choosing the right reed for a performance (and which factors are most important).
Ariel Detwiler discusses some of the issues of choosing which students are good prospective bassoonists.