Robert Hickman’s eighty comments

Oh cool, you can point him towards the book if you see him again. more…

I make a alto d (11 hole) and bass d(10 hole), see https://pureocarinas.com more…

I have recently launched a new book called Serious Ocarina Player which covers everything involved with playing the Italian ocarina as a serious musical instrument. Well known player David Erik Ramos called it a 'bible' for ocarina players in his foreword... more…

"Renaming articulations won’t teach you to accomplish them more proficiently, since the words themselves are arbitrary." more…

"I don’t see how worrying about the linguistic accuracy will make me a better player. I just play the music and enjoy it for what it is, not what is called." more…

Over the past few years I've been non-seriously learning to play the fiddle, being most experienced with wind instruments. While the fiddle can perform both of the fingered articulations used in ITM, how they are performed is inverted relative to a wind i... more…

Sounds like a fast triplet. more…

If you're willing to travel there is a good session run by amargin the gael in newport. more…

Honestly the examples posted here sound pretty good to me, it's somewhat surprising that the trumpet can produce rolls which sound similar to flute. If a player put enough time into it and ignored all the idiotic 'instrument snobbery', I think it could be... more…

"My friend might be able to teach me a little, but he’s a classical violinist. Would that work? Obviously I’ll get professional lessons eventually. For now I’m just going to practice bow strokes on open strings. I’ll do exclusively that for like 2... more…