David M. Erato

saxophones, clarinets, flutes, bassoon

Category: bassoon

  • PSA: Get your horn fixed, NOW!

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    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…

  • Doubles Recital

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    April 17th, 2005   Solo de Concours by Henri Rabaud   Concerto for Clarinet by Artie Shaw   Sechs Quartette IV by Gioacchino RossiniAllegro Vivace Andante Rondo   David Erato – clarinet, bassoonTroy Fannin – flute with Teresa Drews, pianoBrad Bloom, clarinetAndrew Zinsmeister, horn Recorded live at UW-Milwaukee’s Recital Hallby Jeffery Shoemaker, Milivolt Productions

  • Nobel medicine winner says: I owe it all to my bassoon teacher

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      Who was your most influential teacher, and why? My bassoon teacher, Herbert Tauscher, who taught me that the only way to do something right is to practice and listen and practice and listen, hours, and hours, and hours.

  • Don’t do this. Ever.

    Don’t do this. Ever.

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    I made a mistake.  Strike that.  Several mistakes.  One that could have completely ruined my bassoon.  So besides the time it took attempting to fix it myself and $35 for tools and labor, I am going to write about my experience as penance.  In hopes that you can learn from my mistakes or at the…

  • App review: Fingering Woodwinds for iPhone

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    Given how huge apps are, I figured there might be something in Apple’s App Store.  And lo and behold there is “an app for that.”  It’s called Fingering Woodwinds for iPhone ($4.99, iTunes link).  The developer does have a separate iPad version as well for $6.99.  While I would like to review that one as well,…

  • New Study: Playing Bassoon Protects Against Sleep Apnea

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    SEATTLE, June 10 — Compared with other members of an orchestra, musicians who played a high-resistance woodwind instrument were less likely to develop obstructive sleep apnea, researchers found. In a study of 901 professional musicians, the woodwind players also had a lower risk of apnea than did singers or conductors, according to Christopher P. Ward,…

  • Minor Pentatonic Tutorial

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    In this video, Paul Hanson breaks down three very easy to use minor pentatonic scales that sound great over a minor (dorian) mode.  Minor pentatonics are built by the using scale degrees 1, b3, 4, 5, b7.  The pentatonic scales that he uses are built from the 1, 2, and 5.  So in the key…

  • Hercules Stands Rock!!!

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    All of my horns I have been using Hercules stands for the past five years now.  In fact, with the addition of their bassoon stand, I have a Hercules stand for each one of my axes.  Recently, I’ve had to contact the company about the bari sax stand that I own, and their excellent response…

  • More from Paul Hanson

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    In doing research for my interview with Paul Hanson, I came across his old website, jazzbassoon.com. Though he now has a new website (paulhansonmusic.com), I found some of that content very informative, and worth a reposting.  So please enjoy the following musings from Paul.  And as an added treat, a live recording of Paul playing…

  • Interview with jazz bassoonist Paul Hanson

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    “What the amazing Paul Hanson does on bassoon — an exceedingly difficult instrument to play and one almost exclusively associated with classical music — is akin to what other innovators like guitarists Charlie Hunter and Stanley Jordan, banjoist Bela Fleck and bassist Jaco Pastorius have done with their respective instruments.”- Bill Milkowski, Jazztimes, Jazziz  When…