online practice tools
Be certain that you have your speakers turned on.
You will need an internal or external microphone on your computer to utilize this tuner.
mobile practice apps
Price: $3.99 Apple/Android
There are a variety of apps available on Apple and Android platforms for metronomes and tuners, however, for the money I believe this is the best app you can find. Key features include a chromatic tuner with a variety of customizable settings including just and equal temperament and tuning sensitivity. Bonus features beyond the chromatic tuner are a built in tone generator, metronome (which can operate concurrently with the tuner) and a waveform analysis feature.
supplies
TrevCo Varner Music is the "World's Foremost Purveyor of Fine Sheet Music for Double Reeds", with over 12,000 titles in stock. Owned and operated by bassoonist, teacher, and arranged, Eric Van der Veer Varner, TVM is the one place to shop for oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn, bassoon, and contrabassoon; solo, with piano, or in any combination with other instruments. TVM carries a complete stock of solo and chamber music incorporating the double reed family, as well as books, methods, orchestra sets, scores, DVDs, and more.
At TrevCo-Varner, we pride ourselves on offering the kind of expert customer service for double reed musicians that other online stores cannot. Our staff consists of professional musicians with over 50 years of combined experience. We speak English, German, French, and Spanish, and have contacts with rare publishers all over the world. Whether you are looking for that impossible-to-find piece for Heckelphone and Crotales for your dissertation recital, a selection of chamber music for beginning oboists, the difference between the three different editions of a Vivaldi concerto, or some great wedding music, please feel free to contact us. We have in-depth knowledge of the repertoire unmatched in the business, and are happy to help you in any way we can.
Forrests Music was established as a repair shop in 1947 by "Dutch" Forrest, a former band director, on Kittredge street in Berkeley. Gradually the firm expanded into sales of new woodwind instruments and accessories, and flourished by selling and renting school instruments in the rural areas of northern California. After Mr. Forrest's death in the early 1950's, his widow Kathryn continued operation of the business, with the support and encouragement of Ben Meltzer. She subsequently moved to larger quarters at 1908 Shattuck avenue in Berkeley.
There she succeeded in obtaining the services of Bill Shiek, a highly regarded woodwind technician, whose clients were the oboists and bassoonists of the major orchestras in the San Francisco bay area.
To better serve these local client's needs, as well as those of their students, Forrests began to carry not only oboes and bassoons, but also their related woodwind accessories. Although Forrests became known as a double reed specialty firm, it also sold all band instruments, as well as guitars and drums, since the local market could not possibly support a firm with a narrow specialty such as double reeds.
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