Long time, no post….a lot has happened!
Hello everyone, It has been a while since the last time I posted. Life has been busy, work has been busy, etc. There have been so many great opportunities to play fabulous music and work [...]
October 2025
October 2020
Fall/Winter Recording Challenge – Part 1 – Twinkle Variations by Robert Stephenson
This Fall and Winter I need motivation to keep moving forward. Challenge 1 - Record ALL of the Robert Stephenson Twinkle Variations for solo oboe. To that end here is the Theme and Variation [...]
April 2020
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. [...]
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 [...]
Plans on how to prevent the spread of illness
Hello all, I am thinking out loud here. What are we all doing to prevent the spread of illness this year? As we work on our reeds and our students reeds, play in ensembles, etc., [...]
October 2019
Just for fun
When your spouse knows you all too well
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 [...]
May 2019
Albinoni Concerto in D minor, Op 9 No 2, Performance July 14, 2019, 4:00 at St. Ambrose Cellars in Beulah, MI
I am excited to announce that on July 14, 2019, 4:00 pm at the St. Ambrose Cellars (yes, they make mead there!!) in Beulah, Michigan, I have the opportunity to play the Albinoni Concerto in [...]
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 [...]