Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2005-05-28 12:41
Surely:
'cold air' = air with higher pressure driving the air movement, coupled with smaller lip or reed aperture in order to maintain that higher pressure, resulting in higher speed of the airstream past the lips or reed.
'Warm air' = air with lower pressure driving the air movement, coupled with lower resistance from a larger lip or reed aperture, hence less airstream speed past the lips or reed.
I rather suspect that air pressure is a more universally understood concept that that of cold and warm air, which is meaningless until related to change in some muscular activity which alters pressure.
Never mind. There are many ways of teaching, but we must bear in mind that each way will have meaning only to SOME students. We really should teach concepts in many ways, so that the student learns from the way that he finds most meaningful.
Personally, I find it more meaningful to know exactly what the body must do to make a change in playing. Having consciousness of these changes puts me in greater control of them.
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