Re: [Harp-L] circular breathing

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Get a cup of water and a straw. Puff your cheeks with a reserve of air maintain as much back-pressure as possible and blow. Keep the bubbles going and take in air through your nose before your reserve runs out. It's takes practice but you should be able to figure it out yourself in a day or two. It will help if you start with a cocktail straw and graduate up to wider "shake/malt" straws.
Samples of the technique aren't really necessary as it would be a single note held indefinately and to my ears that would be annoying. I think it's a useless technique in the harmonica world unless your aim is to piss people off. :-)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Captron100@xxxxxxx [mailto:Captron100@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 08:14 AM
>To: Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Harp-L] circular breathing
>
>A few years back, there was a thread on circlular breathing, the technique
>didgeridoo and horn players use to enable a note to be held indefinitely. At
>that time several people sent good instructions on how to practice this 
>technique. One practice technique involved blowing thru a straw into a glass of
>water. I saved these instructions, but lost them when my computer died last
>year.
> I have 3 questions. Does anyone have any good instructions for practicing
>circular breathing?
> Do any of u use this technique to good effect on harp? A guy who plays 
>bothe didgeridoo & harp told me that it's not effective on harp because you
>need some inherent resistance, which is provided by the didgeridoo but not a
>harp.
> Are there any examples of this technique we can listen to, even if not on
>harp?
>ron
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