What I Did on My Summer Vacation
We took a vacation this summer. This is not news to anyone in my life – anyone who knows me […]
We took a vacation this summer. This is not news to anyone in my life – anyone who knows me […]
Here’s a thing that happens ALL THE TIME. A student misses something – a low attack, a slur, a high
I haven’t shared anything about my playing work for quite a while. These past two weeks have been overwhelmingly busy,
My Five Minute Reedmaker Season Two seems to be largely about experiments. People ask me how LONG, how THICK, how
OMG the Five Minute Reedmaker is Back! Here’s what I’ve been up to: I have a few videos ready to
In my new mini-series on tools, I guess I’m working my way through the relatively straightforward ones first – while
I thought, sort of, that I had said everything that could possibly be said about making oboe reeds. Had done
Commercially made reeds – those profiled-cane, shinily-wound Jones and Lesher and Emerald Reeds – have their place. They are designed
After you get to the point where your reed has structure, symmetry, and balance, and you still don’t quite like
A student asked me as we were making reeds together whether I use a U or a W scrape. I