Breathing exercises?

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Breathing? Stop it at once - you're steaming up the windows!

So much hot air........

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As long as the music isn't insipit... :pint:
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jim stone wrote:I believe taking breaths is a good deal of the art of flooting ITM.
and all other wind instruments (and vocal) for all genre :really:
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jemtheflute wrote:Breathing? Stop it at once - you're steaming up the windows!

So much hot air........

:twisted: :lol:
let us not turn this into an other zombie thread :really:
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jemtheflute wrote:Breathing? Stop it at once - you're steaming up the windows!

So much hot air........

:twisted: :lol:
Another view, from the bibliography of Monty Python's Big Red Book:

"Keep Breathing: Vol. I in our survival series"
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Brian Finnegan has some interesting things to say on the subject of breath control.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inihv6-WR7M
You have to lay on your side to watch the video though
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