Wind Talkers

With marching band in full swing, and beginning clarinet students on the horizon, August seems like a perfect month to...

By Dr. Pamela Shuler, Assistant Professor of Music, Eastern New Mexico University It is difficult to over-sensationalize the role air...

Tone, tone, oh my gosh that gorgeous oboe tone! It’s one of the highlights and most sought-after qualities of playing...

Lisa Canning: Eva Wasserman-Margolis and I got to know each other through one of the first virtual clarinet competitions that...

Beautiful sonority depends on posture, breath control, embouchure, and practicing long notes. Here I will address embouchure, teaching you a...

The holidays are a perfect time to recommend a new instrument purchase to a student. As an educator you know...

In a recent recording of the Civil Rights anthem “I Shall Not Be Moved,” Grammy-award winning musician Rhiannon Giddens spoke...

The National Standards for Music Education were put into place to help ensure all students receive varied and robust experiences...

With all the challenging emotions students across the country are feeling these days, I asked former band director, music educator...

For the past two years, Lisa’s Clarinet Shop has been successfully teaching woodwind repair online. We have found two common...

Before discussing the important details of picking a good, and stylistically appropriate, saxophone mouthpiece, it is important that the fundamentals...

I asked SBO to allow me to create our column, Windtalkers, because I want to help music educators like yourself be...