Re: Now there's a thought


"Ben Gun" <CutThroatJake@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I believe the velum separates the two parts of the mouth, hard palate
> from soft palate. The nose channels end in the back part, and that is
> also the bit where the windpipe starts.
>
> I assume that it is the tongue that does the separation. Try doing a
> 'G' sound (as in Gold, not as in Gin). When pronouncing a G you first
> block the airways and then open them suddenly. Hence the name plosives
> for these sounds.
>
> Try and do a G again. Build up the pressure, but don't let it out
> through the mouth, use the nose instead. You will find that you can
> breath through the nose while blocking the way through the mouth.
>
> I have never heard of circular breathing, but find it very
> interesting. I always wondered if this was possible. I know bagpipers
> do it with their bags. But trumpetists? Fascinating!
>
> When I was younger I was silly enough to try my hands on smoking
> cigarettes. While others can puff rings, I could suck on my cigartette
> and make it glim while breathing out smoke through the nose at the
> same time. I guess that is the same effect as breathing while sucking
> on a bladder's pipe.
>
> Cheers, Ben
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:39:38 +0100, "Bob Watkinson"
> <clodhopper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Peter Ashby" <pashby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:1h3pw80.a0sy5y1c71yq0N%pashby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Bob Watkinson <clodhopper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Out on my long run today I was drinking through the tube on my bladder
>>>> thingy when I realised I could breath in or out through my nose while
>>>> doing
>>>> it.
>>>> I wonder how we can do that, take in at the same time as we breath out.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmmmmm,
>>>
>>> Do you play the trumpet? a technique called cyclical breathing used by
>>> trumpet players. I can do a similar thing through much time spent
>>> manipulating biological things through a fine mouth pippette. You
>>> breathe through the nose while either sucking or blowing through the
>>> pippette using the cheek muscles. That is your answer, you are sucking
>>> with your mouth while using your respiratory muscles to breathe through
>>> your nose.
>>
>>Ah but what are the mechanics of this? How is the mouth in exclusion
>>capable
>>of sucking? I know it must be able to but how it produces a vacuum escapes
>>me.
>>
>
Thanks for that Ben. I'm sitting here right now and I find I can draw air in
through pursed lips indefinitely whilst breathing in and out normally. Very
confusing and my wife is giving me strange looks.


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