[TPIN] Re: air support on trumpet

[Michael Anderson]

I remember when this book was ALL the rage in the late 70's. Of course MF's
band was amazing then and we all worshiped him. So, when it came out about
this book, we all bought it. It was EXPENSIVE too for the time. A little
hard back book. Very mysterious. A friend of mine thought he'd probably be
going to hell for reading it. :-)

One of the things I remember in the book is they recommended nose breathing
and keeping your nasal passages clear. To do this, they tell you how to get
used to inhaling water and ultimately salt water through your nose to keep
everything clear. I was really into this and learned to do it. I usually did
it in the shower by cupping warm water and just inhaling it through one
nostril, then the other. Salt water was a bit more challenging, but I got
used to that too.

Funny thing.. I couldn't play any higher after doing that.. Dangit. :-)

MA


> From: Jeff Helgesen <jeff.helgesen at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:51:57 -0500
> To: Matt Hilgenberg <hilgenboogie at earthlink.net>
> Cc: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: [TPIN] Re: air support on trumpet
> 
> Matt Hilgenberg <hilgenboogie at earthlink.net> said:
>> 
>> Basically, this is a trumpet specific version of the Yoga Complete Breath.
>> There is a 100 year old book out by a yogi(although his credibility has been
>> disputed before by Ole and other people) called the Science of Breath
>> that discusses the matter fully and will teach you how to do it.  The book
>> can be found here. http://tinyurl.com/2ctq2a
> 
> No need to buy the book, the copyright is long-expired.  You can read
> the whole thing here:
> 
> http://www.shout.net/~jmh/clinic/science_of_breath/
> 
> A summary of the exercises and such can be found here:
> 
> http://www.shout.net/~jmh/clinic/science_of_breath/summary.htm
> 
> The author of the book is actually William Walker Atkinson.  There is
> a discussion of the "identity" aspect here:
> 
> http://users.telenet.be/ananda/ramach.htm
> 
> I'd recommend Claude Gordon's "Brass Playing is No Harder than Deep
> Breathing" (hope I got that title right) for a similar treatment minus
> the mumbo-jumbo (with all respect to aspiring yogis out there).
>