Wind Talk for Woodwinds: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching Woodwind Instruments

This is an outstanding work that I am using as a college textbook for a class on Woodwind Techniques. The information is thorough, accurate, practical and well organized. It goes into enough detail on each woodwind instrument, but not so much that you get bogged down in rhetoric. Congratulations to the authors on publishing a book that has countless uses for teachers at all levels. I just wish something like this was around when I was in college.

This is an excellent resource for any woodwind tutor that finds him or herself tutoring something other than their main instrument. It could also be useful for music educators and/or new junior/training band conductors who are looking for something to help develop an understanding of the general characteristics of how woodwind instruments 'behave' (because, as we all know, in a lot of cases they don't!!).

Wow!!!! What a wealth of knowledge. I'm a music instructor and I bought this book based on some of the ratings. I have to say that this book lives up to them. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking to get some very detailed information about the woodwind instruments.

Excellent book, in excellent condition, delivered as expected. Good work.

This was the required text for my woodwinds class for my Music Ed Major. It was a typical music text book: Informative, best used for reference not as reading.

Excellent resource for band directors and doublers!

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This is a concise and accessible manual for all things relevant to teaching instrumental music. As a middle and high school band director, the visualizations assist both teacher and student to more fully understand abstract concepts. I would HIGHLY recommend this book to any teacher who works with woodwind instruments on a regular basis.

Firstly, the navigation is very, very poor, with really just six generic headings, including instruments and tips. This is most likely to be used as a reference book, yet there's no way to get to any other more specific section as the Index pages are not even hyperlinked, and the pagination differs according to the device you're on, rendering searching for material pointless.There are a very small number of tiny black and white pictures, of no useful purpose. The fingering charts are good when you come across them.Much of the advice isn't really detailed enough and is often common sense. There's talk of occasionally oiling the bore of wooden instruments, but no information on what kind of oil or how to achieve this, or how much to use, or how long to wait to dry. The embouchure pictures are too small, more closeups are needed.There's clearly a lot of knowledge and experience from the authors, but they've struggled to organise their information in this book. It has a lot of potential, but they'll need to sort out navigating sections and headings in the next edition. Make the pictures bigger and add colour. More suggestions are needed to tackle common problems, especially embouchure formation, tonguing and breathing issues.A brave first effort, but badly in need of revision to fulfil its potential as an essential guide for multi instrumentalists and instrumental instructors.