Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2006/09

From: "sheri rolf" <slrolf@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] soft palate air leak
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:52:15 -0400

Sometimes the muscles of the pharynx compensate for the tissue loss by
simply 'bulking up.' Also, as we grow older, everything tends to sag and
bag, including the soft palate. This is why snoring seems to become more
noticeable in middle age.

In response to the "throat breathing," I haven't a clue what THAT means.
Perhaps he was referring to to a noise on inspiration caused by tightening
the of the larynx, but only the judge will ever know what he/she was talking
about. We can merely speculate.

Sheri

slrolf@-----.net

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Subject: Re: [kl] soft palate air leak

In a message dated 9/7/2006 8:54:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
slrolf@-----.net writes:
Sometimes, during the course of a tonsillectomy, tissue from the soft
palate
is inadvertently removed. If enough is removed, then the nasopharynx won't
properly/fully close. This seems to have been more prevelant during the
surgical era that you describe
This happened to me, as a teenager. My doctor finally prevailed on my
parents to have my tonsils removed, when I was a senior in High School,
since I had
persistent ear and throat infections. After the operation, when I played, I

had a noticeable, noisy air leak, that continued for several months. (It
also
felt funny).

I remember being stopped in a scholarship audition, by one of the teachers,

who asked "What's that NOISE?". Very embarrassing to a 17 year old.

It eventually stopped by itself. Maybe my adenoids grew back?

Walter
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