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 Re: Blowing terminology
Author: rdc 
Date:   2008-09-23 02:37

Thank you, Tony, for taking the time and patience to respond to my post even though I was so wrong about the nature of muscle relaxation. I had to think back to what happens with the biceps and triceps to grasp what you were saying, but then the light came.

If I extend my arm with the palm up, I can raise my forearm to a vertical position by contracting the biceps. But once that has happened, the relaxation of the biceps does not get my arm to extend again. It takes the opposing muscle, the triceps, to do the work. All this I knew, but the revelation came when I realized that once the contraction of the biceps has taken place, it can relax in its new position. It does not have to remain contracted.

With the diaphragm, my mistake was in thinking that it must remain in its contracted state once fully lowered. I was attributing the sensation of potential energy I feel after taking a full breath to a contracted diaphragm, rather than to what it is in fact, the "elasticity of the guts" (the opposing muscle group) that you mentioned.

I think I understand now what you mean by the difference between blowing and support. I feel that I probably most always play the clarinet with at least a minimal amount of support, but I now have the dimension of "blowing without support" to explore.

One question about "flex" vs. "contract." My American dictionary defines "flex" as "to contract (as a muscle)." I was using the two terms synonymously, but I gather from your post that "flex" has a slightly different meaning?

It can be humbling to be wrong, but the excitement of learning more than makes up for it. Thanks again.
Robert Chest (rdc)
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