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 Re: Circular breathing - discussion
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2007-05-20 19:36

"The bodies of so-called "free divers"--those folks who practice diving to incredible depths while holding their breath--learn to adapt to long periods of CO2 buildup. They can hold their breaths for up to six minutes. I have yet to see the musical phrase that lasted longer than six minutes--there will be somewhere in there to breathe, eventually.

So maybe Holliger, like a free diver, has simply trained his body to ignore the "breathe now!" signals, and to function on levels of CO2 saturation in the bloodstream that would have lesser oboists collapsing on the floor."

Free divers hyperventilate before diving to increase the amount of oxygen in their body, so they can stay under longer. Try it out yourself - hold your breath for as long as you can under normal breathing conditions (but taking one huge breath before) and then time the result. Then hyperventilate and hold your breath for as long as you can and see how much longer that is in comparison to your previous best. I reckon you can add at least 30 to 60 seconds on your previous record.

But circular breathing is best demonstrated for anyone to get the hang of it, and with the high breath resistance an oboe has it's probably the easiest instrument to learn circular breathing on. I only learnt how to circular breathe when watching a Sicillian oboist play the opening of the Strauss concerto this way. Not that I'd do that or use circular breathing all the time, but sometimes it can come in useful.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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