Klarinet Archive - Posting 001056.txt from 1998/11

From: "Steven J. Goldman M.D." <gpsc@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Wagner; Fiume March; Helium and Pitch
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:28:08 -0500

Just two quick points. First, these unfortunate people would have very much
known that they were suffocating if they had been awake. Special receptors
in the brain and certain blood vessels would have been triggered by the
increased CO2 and the people would have began to breath very fast to try to
get rid of this build up. They would have also had the feeling of oxygen
starvation and felt very uncomfortable. Yuck.

Second, the body also has oxygen receptors that respond to low oxygen
levels. They are just not as sensitive as the CO2 receptors.

Now that we are all respiratory physiologists, lets relax and put on some
Mozart.

Steven Goldman
sjgoldman@-----.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Hiroshi Nagatsuma [mailto:hiroshi@-----.jp]
Subject: RE: [kl] Wagner; Fiume March; Helium and Pitch

Although this has not a big relationship with clarinet playing, a horrible
incident occurred in an African village several years ago. Whole of
them,young and old,all died during a night.Geologists concluded that during
that night a huge mass of carbon dioxide at the bottom of a lake nearby came
up to the surface to suffocate the villagers without their even knowing
it......

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