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Favorite blog posts, March 2020

March 31, 2020 by Bret Pimentel
  • Practice Monster (David Pope, saxophone): Circular Breathing
  • Sax ProShop: #WednesdayWisdom: Sanitizing Your Mouthpiece & Instrument
  • Trent Jacobs, bassoonist: Bassoon fingering chart and On communicable diseases and buying reeds
  • heather roche: “Ultra-Underblow Mutiphonics”: Part 2 of the recategorisation of Philip Rehfeldt’s chart
  • Rachel Taylor Geier (flute): Imperfect Balance – Hand Position Correctors
  • The Bassic Sax Blog » (Helen Kahlke): Is a vintage sax right for me?
  • The Vintage Clarinet Doctor – Blog (Jeremy Soule): mouthpiece porn vs Mouthpiece Monogamy
  • The Flute View (Lauren Monteiro): 4 Rules for Recording Your Practice
  • International Clarinet Association (Wesley Ferreira): Master Class: Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 43 by Niels Gade
  • Jenny Maclay (clarinet): 31 Clarinet Compositions Written by Female Composers
  • Music Major – Majoring in Music: Music School Decisions When You Can’t Visit

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