Tuning and Voicing Your Oboe
What is Tuning and Voicing? It is sometimes possible for your technician to customize your instrument to your specific tuning preferences....
Tuning and Voicing Your Clarinet
What is Tuning and Voicing? It is sometimes possible for your technician to customize your instrument to your specific tuning preferences....
Are You Thinking About Becoming a Repair Technician?
One of the questions I’m asked most often is how one gets started in instrument repair. There is no doubt that we need more workers in...
Clarinet Disassembly
I'm posting these lecture notes for the convenience of the NYCDOE Band directors attending a seminar on woodwind maintenance. These are...
Tools and Supplies for Band Directors
This is a list I put together for the NYCBOE band directors attending a seminar with me. If anyone else finds it useful that's great!...
A Parent’s Guide to Choosing an Oboe
I recently had to buy my son a larger violin. We were borrowing one from his teacher, and it was time to move up a size. I had no idea...
