Breathing

[Tommy]

@Chuck_Clark

Is loss of breath capacity something that just happens as you get older, or is there anything you can do to prevent it.

Specifically, does anyone know of any web sites or exercises that might help regain, or at least retain, breath function?

Start with sitting up straight, and breathing with your diaphragm. It is like any other muscle if you don’t use it becomes weak. Sitting up straight keeps your ribs from closing off the bottom part of the lungs.

[jemtheflute]

@Chuck_Clark

Is loss of breath capacity something that just happens as you get older, or is there anything you can do to prevent it.

Specifically, does anyone know of any web sites or exercises that might help regain, or at least retain, breath function?

Dunno about exercises, but try taking up the flute - seems you’ll soon have a surplus when reverting to whistle - cf this thread on the Flute Forum - and the flute-beginner OP there is over 50 (and has a dinky nose )!

[riverman]

@jemtheflute

@riverman

I have a gold Irish whistle waiting for me in heaven. I will there have the ears to play without earplugs, and the whistle itself will be sweet, pure, and not any louder in the high range than in the low.

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@jemtheflute

Has heaven got different acoustical laws, then?

Yup!

…or, perhaps I should say, super-natural acoustic laws.

@jemtheflute

You could even have an Irish gold one, apparently, these days, since they discovered (or rediscovered) said nefarious substance somewhere in Monaghan…

Vast reserves of gold discovered in Irish hills | Ireland | The Guardian

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Nice as that sounds, the gold of heaven is superior. Check out Revelation 21:18.

Thanks for the link–I’ll read it!

[jemtheflute]

@riverman

Nice as that sounds, the gold of heaven is superior.

Why settle for unattainable, dubious fantasy when the real just might be possible?

@riverman

Check out Revelation 21:18.

Don’t posses the requisite reference volume…

[riverman]

Why, Jem, we’re online together!

Heaven isn’t an unattainable fantasy.

This is GOOD news!

The necessary reference volumes are all over the place–or I’ll send you one for free, if you want it!

[jemtheflute]

Thanks, Riverman, I appreciate the spirit of your offer … I respect your right to your beliefs, but can hardly respect the beliefs themselves. Should I actually need a version of the book in question for cultural reference purposes, I’m sure that I can find one readily enough, though which version??? I think that we are in danger here of straying from a little light jesting and joshing around the thread into Proctology Forum territory!

I prefer to fantasise about a real whistle made from Irish gold, embossed in a La Tene III style or maybe engraved in a Hiberno-Scandinavian Book of Kells style… dreamy!

[riverman]

…and I’m not sure about all the terms of your fantasy whistle, but fantasize a second, will you–one for me! It sounds dreamy!

[mutepointe]

Getting back to the breathing exercises. You folks are all technical about this, I just play for fun. You all seemed to have zipped right over my recommendation of a harmonica for breathing exercises and stuck with playing a flute as your recommended breathing exercises. Have you compared the two? Could you compare and contrast the harmonica/flute as breathing exercises?