Technique & Instruction

The Bassoon-Family Fingering Companion
If you want to find fingering instruction for a variety of notes, trills, shakes, and other effects for the bassoon, contrabassoon, and other reed instruments, this site has what you want. While the instructions are too advanced for beginning students, this fingering guide offers music educators detailed and illustrated tips that will help them teach better.

Flute Craft Manuals, Books, and Videos
This site has sells books, videos, and more on how to make and play your own woodwind instruments. While the primarily focus is on Native American flutes, the site will offer any flute enthusiast the means to better understand how flutes work.

The New Way Things Work: Woodwind Instruments
This introductory page is excellent for children and explains how woodwinds work in animated graphics and text. You will need some plug-ins to watch. Learn about reeds, fingerholes, keys, and pads, as well as how the instrument shape affects sound.

Saxophone FAQ
On this FAQ site, many questions about the saxophone are answered. You’ll learn about the various kinds of saxophone, the techniques behind special effects, and the different mouthpieces made by manufacturers.

Sax Lessons
Learn how to play the saxophone here. While this is a commercial site, many of its courses on music theory are free and well illustrated with diagrams, pictures, and MIDI files. There are also interesting articles on topics like improvisation and composers.

Woodwind Fingering Guide
This page is devoted entirely to guiding players through every fingering position for a variety of woodwind instruments. You can try out fingerings for the flute, piccolo, recorder, clarinet, saxophone, and more on this well-organized site.