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© 2007 Dallas Brass
Education > Windmaster
A fun and effective way to help get the air moving and develop lung capacity.
Playing a wind instrument is all about the air. More specifically, it's all about the inhalation. We can only blow out as much as we take in.
The average person breathes between 17,000 and 20,000 times a day. So, by age 10, when a child starts playing a musical instrument, he or she has breathed some 70 million times! With just a handful of exceptions, they were all small and shallow breaths - not adequate to successfully play a wind instrument. It's no wonder that taking a big breath when playing is difficult to remember and to do! Shallow breathing is engrained in all of us.
However, once a year, all children take a least one big breath - guaranteed! On their birthday - they make a wish - take a big breath - and blow! The WindMaster is based on...
...this idea. It helps develop a clear sensation of taking in lots of air by making it a visual experience one that you can measure. Breathing becomes less abstract.
The WindMaster is also an exerciser. Incorporating it into one's practice will get the air flowing freely and keep it flowing fully. The results are clearly long term. It's not magic - it's simply exercise. By exercising our lungs and diaphragm, we develop the muscles and elasticity needed to take full inhalations.
Dallas Brass offers the WindMaster manual to you free of charge
It also contains general breathing concepts. You may download it here:
Windmaster Manual (PDF format)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dallas Brass shop@dallasbrass.com
