Pedro Eustache: Suite Concertante for World Woodwinds and Orchestra
Ethnic woodwind guru and composer Pedro Eustache (“ayoo-STAH-chay”) has posted videos on YouTube of most of his recent work Suite Concertante for World Woodwinds and Orchestra, featuring himself as...
View ArticleNew York Times blog: Steve Gorn
The New York Times’s “Lens” blog did a nice piece on Steve Gorn, a woodwind doubler who has turned his primary focus to the bansuri (Indian bamboo flute). Surf on over to see a nice photo and hear...
View ArticleMore on the science/fiction of woodwind materials
Photo, ~Bob~West~ There’s an interesting woodwind-related post by blogger “MarkCC” at Good Math, Bad Math, entitled “My Newest Flute, made of… Plastic?!” MarkCC recently acquired a new flute of the...
View ArticleIntroducing the Fingering diagram builder
I’m pleased to present something I’ve been working on, on and off, for a while now. I’m pretty excited about it, and I hope you will check it out and let me know what you think. This project developed...
View ArticleDecember links digest
I try not to just dump lists of links very often, but here are a few fun items that didn’t warrant their own full posts: Here, Dr. Coleman models the new flute case cover from Cavallaro, featuring...
View ArticleFingering diagram builder, version 0.2
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,...
View ArticleReport: National Flute Association Convention 2011
This year was my first time attending the National Flute Association‘s annual convention, held this year in Charlotte, North Carolina. I’ve been to conferences of all the other major woodwind...
View ArticleUnderstanding woodwind key nomenclature systems
Photo, Allan Reyes Most woodwind instruments come in several sizes, and a naming system is required for describing the size and pitch of each. The most familiar for players of modern Western woodwinds...
View ArticleRecorder notation vs. band/orchestral woodwind notation
At the request of a reader, I’m going to try to clarify some things about notation for recorders. (I touched on it previously in an article about woodwind key nomenclature systems.) Those of us who...
View ArticleReader email: Chinese woodwinds
Some dizi and xiao from my collection I recently got email from a reader about the use of Chinese woodwinds in theater and film music. I did my best to answer his questions, and I’m posting them here...
View ArticleFaculty woodwinds recital, Aug. 27, 2013
Bret Pimentel, woodwinds Kumiko Shimizu, piano Nicole Davis, cello Works by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) Faculty Recital Delta State University Department of Music Recital Hall, Bologna...
View ArticleNew sound clips: Faculty woodwinds recital, Aug. 27, 2013
It’s time again for the annual post-mortem on my on-campus faculty recital. This year’s program was all Telemann, which was fun. Since some of my most formative years as a musician happened back when I...
View ArticleReview: Butch Hall Native-American-style flutes
For years now I’ve told anyone who will listen how much I love my Butch Hall Native-American-style flute in F-sharp minor. I recently bought it a little friend in G minor, and realized it is high time...
View ArticleAnatomy of a bad bamboo flute
Bamboo flutes and other “world”-type woodwinds of true musician quality can be difficult to find, and if you’re not experienced with them it can be nearly impossible to tell if an online seller’s wares...
View ArticleFarewell: Yusef Lateef
Earlier this week jazz musician Yusef Lateef passed away at age 93. Lateef was known for his adventurous woodwind doubling, playing saxophone and flute, plus the oboe and a number of woodwinds from...
View ArticleFavorite blog posts, December 2013
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...
View ArticleFavorite blog posts, March 2014
Recommended reading from the woodwind blogs in March: “Komuso Lady” at A Shakuhachi Journey blogs about tsu meri difficulties. Even for players of “modern” Western woodwinds, there are good thoughts...
View ArticleReport: NNFA Conference, Southeastern Region, 2014
I’m back from the outstanding NNFA regional conference, where I spent the week rubbing shoulders (or should I say noses?) with over 700 very fine musicians from the Southeastern US. I gave a brief...
View ArticleIrish flute/whistle ornamentation symbols à la Grey Larsen, in Lilypond
If you are nerdy/awesome enough to be into (1) the pedagogy of Irish traditional woodwind playing and (2) open-source text-based music notation software, then you may want to check out my set of...
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