Circumaspiration

[jporter]

Rick points out:

>You're right about circular breathing not being part of the classical
>corpus of wind techinque. Several observations, however:

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>4: The circular-breathing technique itself may come to Western music via
>the Australian didgeridoo. Anyone know more about this?

I heard a piece, I think it was on NPR, awhile back, wherein a man who had
learned this circular breathing and how to play the didgeridoo (love that
name!) from its inventors, demonstrated it on air. It was great. I wish I
could recall more of the details- perhaps the NPR archives.