Bret Pimentel, woodwinds

Woodwinds: Contrabassoon

Favorite blog posts, December 2013

Dec 31, 2013

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in Favorite blog posts

for Bassoon, Contrabassoon, Flute, Oboe, Recorder, Saxophone, Tenor saxophone, Woodwind doubling

Here are the woodwind-related blog posts that made my “nice” list for December. (One from late November seems to have slipped in here, too.) On his new blog, Timothy Owen explains how he tunes his saxophone like an M-16 assault rifle. Bassoonist Betsy Sturdevant (of the Columbus Symphony) reveals her basic reedmaking method. Cooper Wright doesn’t just play …
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Fingering diagram builder, version 0.2

Feb 5, 2011

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in Announcements and news

for Contrabassoon, Wind controller, World woodwinds

Two months ago I introduced the Fingering diagram builder, something that I hoped people would find useful for quickly and easily creating fingering diagrams for woodwind instruments. Since then, something over 1,000 fingering diagrams have been downloaded, which I think is a nice start. Many of those have been saxophone fingerings, and I attribute this …
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