Author: Buster
Date: 2011-10-17 02:51
Bob and Arnoldstang,
I must have been watching too much Top Gear, the real British version not the American farce, and had some rub off on me.
or I did just see for the first time a movie about the making of a movie version of Tristram Shandy with Steve Coogan, Stephen Frye et al. so that may have seeped in a bit. Actually a quite quirky but smart little movie. (It helps to read the source material to get some of the sarcastic references, but is worthwhile nonetheless.)
...too remove all doubt: I grew up in Canton, OH (football town), lived in Michigan for some time, moved to Mexico for 5 years and have found my way back to Ohio for the time being. Hopefully not for much longer.... I became accustomed to the whole no winter thing.....
Bob, I do understand what you are getting at with inflating balloons as I am viewing it from a particular context: that of someone that understands their own breathing mechanism, and how what one can do with a balloon could apply to the clarinet. But for me, coming from the other side, I would have trouble describing what inflating a balloon could illustrate to someone with my own writing ability.
I'm sure I have been guilty of committing my own written crimes here, but sometimes it helps to step back and look at things from the viewpoint of someone with different experiences than oneself. Admittedly, this can be difficult to do at times. I think we tend to take for granted certain things we have learned/experienced that a reader may not have in their own sphere of knowledge.
FDF wrote:
> Use your diaphragm and your respiratory muscles. Help yourself
> by doing various aerobic exercises.
>
I hope your post was written to be ironic in lieu of what had preceded it, but that does not help matters much. Beyond describing in the vaguest terms what entails the act of playing, not much could be gleaned..... save for the fact that aerobic exercise can help condition the breathing mechanism.
-J
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