How I make American scrape reeds at A=442
This post is how I make American long scrape reeds at A=442. I am sure there are lots of other ways, but this is the way I have settled on after several years of experimentation. [...]
April 2020
March 2020
Have water problems? Try this!!
Hello all, FINALLY here is the long promised post for how to prevent water issues. This is a process that I learned in 2008 and have, for the vast majority of the time, not had [...]
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Reedmaking Knot demonstration
Hello all, As we are now trying to figure out how to teach online, and someone posted yesterday asking for demonstrations of reed making knots, I thought it was a good time to make [...]
July 2019
Baroque Oboe and Redgate Oboe class
I recently gave a class at Central Michigan University Reed Camp in which I was presenting on the baroque oboe and the Howarth Redgate oboe. At first I was not quite sure [...]
June 2019
What’s that? Oh it’s the Baroque oboe
Here are a couple of pictures of my baroque oboe. What I love about baroque oboe, and period instruments in general, is that I feel a great sense of freedom and openness when playing [...]
May 2019
Double Trills
Here is video #2 for Double Trills. They are so much fun to play and practice, and quite possibly the easiest of the contemporary techniques to start with! Keep in mind there are [...]
Harmonics Sounds
Here is the first of the short video series for the sounds utilized in my etude book. This one will cover harmonics. Fingerings and etudes included in my book. Link to book https://www.apakamusic.com/product/expanding-your-toolbox-a-guide-to-beginning-contemporary-techniques-for-oboe/ [...]
April 2019
Oboe creations
We have probably all had to create something we needed as oboe players, swabs, humidifiers, reeducate latch, etc. I made this one while I was a student in Iowa and I am still proud of [...]
Class at IDRS 2019 in Tampa, Florida!! July 18 @ 2:00 pm
Hello all, I just wanted to make a quick announcement. This year at IDRS 2019 in Tampa, Florida, at the University of South Florida, I will be giving my class on "Expanding Your Toolbox: A [...]
March 2019
University of South Florida Class
I wanted to say a big Thank You!! to Amy Collins and the oboe studio at the University of South Florida for making me feel so welcome and for being sooooo receptive to the ideas [...]