Category: flute
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…
Skip To My Lou – Frank Macchia
Piccolo solos, trading, and it finishes with a piccolo soli! Featuring Sal Lozano, Bob Sheppard, Frank Macchia, Jay Mason on Piccolosfrom the CD “Folk Songs for Jazzers, available at frankmacchia.net Frank puts together some incredible big bands for his arrangements. I only wish they were more accessible to your average reading big band. There’s just too many…
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.…
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…
App review: Fingering Woodwinds for iPhone
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,…
