Klarinet Archive - Posting 000434.txt from 1998/11

From: Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip <nyip@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet playing and fever
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:38:17 -0500

It is not very recommended to play or play that much when you are sick.
When you play or sing you are working your diaphragm muscles. When you
are sick and working muscles you tire faster.
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Claudia
Zornow wrote:

> Since we're on a physiological roll, I wonder if anyone has comments
> about the effects of playing clarinet while running a fever. Last
> weekend I played a concert with a fever of 101 (F) and came pretty
> close to passing out during the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Eighth.
>
> What I noticed was that I did OK if I had enough rests between the
> notes, but long passages (even articulated ones with room for swift
> breaths between notes) were extremely strenuous. Interestingly, by
> the third movement I was back in my head and managed to pull it off,
> though I had to leave out a lot of notes in the fourth movement,
> especially when the chills started.
>
> So what's going on physiologically in a case like this?
>
> Claudia
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