Klarinet Archive - Posting 000248.txt from 2011/06

From: John Brophy <johnbrophy0@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] circular breather
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:16:18 -0400

At a Europe-wide gathering of pipers held in Armagh, the delegation from the
island of Sardinia said they taught children by getting them to blow through
a drinking straw with one end inside a glass of water. When they get a good
steady stream of bubbles, then they''re allowed to go on to next level.
Haven't tried it myself....
JB

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Randolf Keller <randolfkeller@-----.com>wrote:

> I learned a good deal of the circular breathing technique by filling the
> mouth with water,
> and then push the water out with the cheek muscles, while breathing in at
> the same time through the nose.
> After I got that nicely done, switched to the instrument and used a tone
> with sufficient, but not too much resistance and tried keeping volume, pitch
> and overall stability while doing the same.
> I am using circular breathing every now and then for long passages.
> It is a completely different story to do it while playing any faster
> passages ;-)
> (though it is a simple matter of practising, I suppose)
>
> Once I watched Clark Terry demonstrate circular breathing during a Master
> Class in the Swiss Jazz School in Bern.
> It was amazing. Fluent, streaming notes, without any hint that he was
> breathing and he went on and on...
>
> Another occasion to watch masters of circular breathing was during a
> Tourist even in Shenzhen/China.
> A Chinese ethnic music group playing the Suona - Chinese double reeds
> trumpet - were all using this technique to blast out their chinese folk
> songs.
>
> Good luck - it is not so difficult !
> /Randolf
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