Breathing problem while playing ?!?!
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Re: Breathing problem while playing ?!?!
I know an Anglo buttonbox player who started out on harmonica. Last I heard, he still breathes in tandem with his box as if he's huffing on his gob iron.
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Re: Breathing problem while playing ?!?!
We don't huff. Have you got an hour?
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Re: Breathing problem while playing ?!?!
Chugging, then? I was thinking of this technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw0J6lIC ... re=related (beginning @ 0:30). But damn me if I can figure out which one of 'em has the mad skillz that makes that piano-y sound.
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Re: Breathing problem while playing ?!?!
Hmm. I can only imagine that you might be referring to a local C#/D box player, not an Anglo concertina player.Nanohedron wrote:I know an Anglo buttonbox player who started out on harmonica. Last I heard, he still breathes in tandem with his box as if he's huffing on his gob iron.
After nearly 12 years of playing I've finally gotten to the point where someone who might be watching me play doesn't really notice the breathing. The very real issue that I face is trying to call out a tune name, key, or just "hup!": I either have to stop playing in the middle of the tune, or wait until I hit a run of notes with the bellows going in either direction so as to make that call. Oddly, when I play guitar I can sing at the same time, but when playing the box I'm lucky to so much as grunt.