Author: d-oboe
Date: 2005-05-30 21:11
Circular breathing is easiest on the oboe because the reed offers so much back pressure. It is nothing complicated - it takes time to learn, but once you have it, it can be used almost unconciously.
First, the physiology. You have two "tanks". Your lungs, and a small pouch of air in your mouth. You also have a soft palate in the back of your mouth.
Now, to actually perform a circular inhale
1. Build up air in your cheeks
2. Quickly "change tanks" for a split second. That's to say close off your throat so that you expell air ONLY from your cheeks, with no help from from anywhere else. Concurrently, this allows you to take a sniff of air through your nose.
3. Change tanks so that you are blowing properly again.
Now, to circular exhale:
1. Build up air in your cheeks
2. Change tanks - blow ONLY out of cheeks. While blowing out of cheeks, let air out through your nose.
The circular exhale helps with the bloating feeling that happens with the inhale. It will feel strange because air is leaving both nose and mouth, but it just takes getting used to.
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