Author: David Erato
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Budget Bass Clarinet Reviews
Fact: Woodwind doublers need to own lots of equipment. Fact: High quality equipment isn’t cheap. So unless funds are unlimited, woodwind doublers have to choosy on what equipment they spend money on. While I would love to own a $14,000 bass clarinet, it makes no sense for me to go into debt for one. It’s…
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What happened the night Jethro Tull beat Metallica to a Grammy Award – Classic Rock
Tongue in cheek, our record company placed an ad in Billboard magazine with the strapline: ‘The flute is a heavy, metal instrument.’ link >
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The Most Legendary Saxophone Ever Made | Pitchfork
The horn is imbued with a significant mythology; a theory that Mark VIs were made from recasted artillery shells and church bells in France in the aftermath of the war continues to circulate widely, despite the company’s assertions that it’s not true. “Sometimes the musicians don’t want to know the truth,” Milhaud says. “They just…
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Piccolo tips from the Pros
…I asked these highly accomplished musicians if they could spare a moment to give me some tips that I could write about and pass along to anyone else attempting to master the piccolo. Some of these players may have taken up the picc later in a doubling career, like myself. Others are flute and piccolo…
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New Piccolo!
As a multi-instrumentalist, one of the upsides (and downsides) is that we get to own many instruments. Which means we get to own many, but also need to purchase and maintain many, more instruments than the average joe. It’s been a bit since my last instrument purchase; I think I purchased my bassoon in 2009.…
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Is one month of lessons enough to assess?
“An experienced teacher often needs about ten lessons to really learn about their student. These are things like: – how they learn– how much they practice– how they practice– what they already understand vs. new information to be assimilated over time– what their physical strengths and weaknesses are on the instrument– what their intellectual and…
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PSA: Get your horn fixed, NOW!
A few days ago, I picked up my alto sax and my flute from repair by Steve Schoene at Schmitt Music. The alto repair, a Keilwerth SX-90R black nickel, was a full repad. The flute was just in for a checkup and since he did a full repad on the flute about 2 years ago, there…
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What does N.V. mean?
A student of mine recently asked the question, “What does N.V. mean?” They tried googling it or thought it also could be a J.V. No vibrato. Without looking at the score, I would guess the parts are in unison/octaves. Hopefully this will answer the question for anybody else searching to find out what N.V. means.…