Klarinet Archive - Posting 000793.txt from 2000/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Article: Breathing and Support
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:20:14 -0500

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:26:37 -0800 (PST), Bilwright@-----.net said:

> Tony, if you're going to rewrite your article, it may help to mention
> where the diaphragm and abdomen muscle groups are anchored.

I wonder whether one of the professionals here could describe this more
simply and prettily than I can. Diane?

> In voice lessons, when my daughter's teacher told her to use her
> diaphragm, my daughter couldn't imagine how pushing her stomach out
> would cause some other mysterious body part to go down (or up, for
> that matter).

I'm not surprised. Fortunately, we don't need to know the explanation
in order to use support effectively. I don't know how old your daughter
is -- perhaps she'd be able to handle the explanation -- but it would be
unwise to confuse a younger child with the technicalities, unless he/she
had a specially well-developed interest in such things.

> Tensing her diaphragm ought to pull her stomach inwards (in her mind).

Oh. Perhaps she did have such a well-developed interest. Did she think
that the diaphragm was 'vertically mounted' rather than 'horizontally
mounted'? Just correcting that assumption might have been enough.

The full/empty Mac 'dustbin' icon is quite a good visual image of how
putting stuff in at the top results in lateral displacement:-)

Tony
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