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RE: Asthma and Playing the Clarinet

Author: Carlos Martin
Date: 2001-02-01 10:27

I only feel asthma when in contact with house dust. Anyway, I always keep a Ventolin inhaler with me, in part because of 4 or 5 occasions I�ve had a bad experience, and in part because (yes I admit it) the fear of not keeping it near can lead to an asthma crisis.

Clarinet: Now is my third month in every-day practice, and never had any problem except when forcing too much blowing time, as any healthy person would. I�ve often measured my heart rithm, which was sometimes even under my average because of hyperventilation.

I recognize I try to swim a couple of times every week to support my lung capacity, but anyway I�m sure that clarinet playing would in no case lead to disnea.

So concentrate in good sound projection and don�t blow time enough to join the Guinness.

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