[TPIN] Air out nose while playing normally?

[Dwight Bird]

You have air coming out of your nostrils?  I don't.  I do often have air
escape out the corners when I'm tired or working to lessen the mouthpiece
pressure I'm using, but never from the nose.

Try this... Take a medium sized breath, close your lips and try to blow them
open using your blowing muscles, but keep your lips close so the air can't
get out.  Do you have air escaping from you nose under this condition.  If
you do, you may have some physical issue you are not aware of.

Even if you do have air escape, but you play with good sound I don't know
that you'd need to worry about it.

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Dwight Bird
Kaysville, UT
-----Original Message-----
From: tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu [mailto:tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu] On
Behalf Of Rod Brawn
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:33 AM
To: TPIN
Subject: [TPIN] Air out nose while playing normally?

Hi Gang,
    Today while playing some Clarke Exercises (Setting up Drills) and
finding I didn't have the air to play them the suggested 4 times in one
breath, I held my left had up under my nostrils while playing a long tone
only to feel a very small amount of air coming out.  Is this something the
rest of you have noticed while playing?  Is it normal for some air to come
out this way?  I seem to be playing with good tone and all the rest.
    What do others experience?


Rod Brawn
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