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Author: YT
Date: 2025-10-16 10:27
Dear bboard members
I'm looking for literature, ideally in English language, about breathing or breath support when playing clarinet (or any wind instrument) but have trouble to find anything useful. Do you have any recommendations?
Have a nice day everyone and thank you!
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Author: Elsie Ash
Date: 2025-10-16 10:50
You may find useful information in books like "The Technique of Breathing for Wind Instruments" by Stephen Maxym, which is specifically about breathing for wind players. For clarinetists specifically, looking at pedagogical texts such as David Pino's "The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing" often includes sections on breathing and air support. Additionally, academic works like the thesis "Aspects of Breathing In Clarinet Playing" by Catherine McCorkill and similar research papers can offer a more physiological and in-depth view of the topic.
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Author: Alexey
Date: 2025-10-16 18:22
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I will be banned, possibly, but breathing is very simple. We only need to make the reed vibrate. It doesn't matter how we breathe in or what fancy thing we are trying to do with our belly, diaphragm, or anything when we try to artificially "support".
Once we can blow at the palm constantly (slowly or fast) and can increase and decrease smoothly the air speed, we are good. And we can do it without knowing the mechanics of breathing at all.
Yes, there are nuances about how to take enough air, how not to be tense when taking air, what is the correct amount of air for a particular phrase, etc, but in a nutshell, breathing is the simplest part of playing clarinet. The most difficult thing is how to make everything work in coordination ( breathing, embouchure, tonguing, voicing, etc) for a particular note in particular dynamics, with particular articulation.
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Now, to the topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_system
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Author: graham
Date: 2025-10-16 19:36
Read doggedly through the posts by Tony Pay on this forum, and you’ll get what you need.
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