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Author: Melissa Anderson
Date: 2013-03-20 20:29
Hi everyone.
I have already posted this on the clarinet forum and have had a good response, but I'm also looking to see how this condition affects other wind muisicans.
I'm doing my degree dissertation on a condition called "Stress Velopharyngeal Incompetence", it is a condition which is not very common but it mostly happens with clarinettists. The condition is basically a palatal air leak whereas, whilst a musican is performing, a leak begins which allows air only to pass through the nose and nothing to come through the mouth, therefore no sound can be produced.
If you could take a few minutes to complete my online questionnaire I would be very grateful and if anyone has experienced this or knows more about the condition, please reply.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9QNYC66
Thank you very much.
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Author: mschmidt
Date: 2013-03-21 03:39
Well, I am very well experienced in a lot of other forms of incompetence....
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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Author: jhoyla
Date: 2013-03-21 08:58
In my youth, I suffered from a condition whereby air would leak out painfully through my nose. If I continued playing the pain (feeling of raw chafing, internally) would become unbearable.
Is this the condition to which you refer?
I stopped playing for 10 years or so (I took up singing instead - you can't ignore the call to make music); When I resumed I trained myself to breathe only through my mouth and never through my nose. The problem has never recurred.
In retrospect, as a youngster I was not very confident about my embouchure and once I got the reed playing I would breathe in and out through my nose. I am fairly certain that this exacerbated the problem.
J.
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Author: KJC
Date: 2013-03-22 13:32
I took up oboe again last August after not playing for many years. When I first started, after about an hour I would get very fatigued and my embouchure would become very strained and weak. A couple of times air did come out my nose at this point! After a few weeks though, this went away completely. Now I can play three or four hours a day (with breaks of course) with no problem at all.
-KJC
Post Edited (2013-03-23 14:01)
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Author: plclemo
Date: 2013-03-22 19:55
I took your survey - I play clarinet, oboe and bassoon. I have more problems with "losing air" while playing my clarinet. Usually it happens when I am fatigued.
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Author: MikeWilson
Date: 2013-03-26 01:13
Hi Melissa I've just taken your survey.
I play oboe and (badly) bassoon.
When I haven't been playing regularly I get palatal fatigue with a huge nasal air leak if I play nearly continuously for took long (eg. bach/strauss oboe concerto movement) - when it happens I have to stop and rest. As I get back into regular practice over a few weeks the time to palatal failure steadily increases from perhaps 10 minutes (1 concerto movement say) to it never happening, but just getting a tired embouchure instead.
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