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Learning to breathe through the instrument

Julian Siegel appearing to play the bass clarinet under water

Musicians often seem so absorbed in what they're doing that you can hardly tell where their bodies end and the instrument begins.

Julian Siegel believes that, as you get used to it, a wind instrument becomes an extension of your lungs, or like a snorkel you're breathing through if you were under water. And where you begin is where the breath starts, in that big platform of muscle below the lungs called the diaphragm.

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