Category: Health and Fitness
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Make a trifold mirror for your studio!
Most teachers have a mirror on their wall, so that their students can look at themselves when playing. But would you like to offer up a side view to your students? If so, you would need a trifold mirror. If you shop for one on the Internet, already made, you are looking at about $800-900.…
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If we could only see what’s going on!
In the last couple of posts, I talk a lot about my concepts of articulation. These kinds of discussions usually get very subjective, opinionated and divisive. Why? Because we can’t actually see what’s going on. But what if we could? We can with imaging techniques. Here are some X-ray video clips of a horn player…
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A tale of teeth
For the past four weeks I have had a toothache in the back right lower molar (dentists call this tooth number 31). After some probing and x-rays, it turned out to be an infection below the gum line. The bacteria were having a party inside the molar, and my molar didn’t like it. Most of…
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What I was practicing at age 16
A few days ago, an old friend shared some photos with me from when I was 16–in 10th grade. I actually kept a diary back then, so I looked through it a little to see what musical things I was doing in 1980. I played in a jazz band sponsored by the Boy Scouts (and…
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Growing in the Navy Band
While remembering when events happened in this blog “memoir” series, I have made many errors–usually corrected right after posting. If you see anything that isn’t right, please let me know, and I’ll be glad to correct. Today, I’m picking up where I left off in my Navy Band career. In the year 2000, I was…
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Brassatomic habits: change your frame
We have all been there. It’s the end of a long day, but there are still pieces on our practice stand that haven’t been looked at. But we have to do it, because we want to get better. We don’t want to lose our technique. We want to keep the habit. We don’t want to…