Posted by Jay Bertolet on March 07, 2002 at 20:01:02:
In Reply to: Well... posted by ? on March 07, 2002 at 18:47:00:
I don't think so. I don't circular breath nor have I ever tried to learn how. One premise of circular breathing, blowing the air out with your cheeks instead of your normal apparatus, seems like such a fundamental difference in production that I can't conceive of how you could circular breath and keep your sound consistent. I'm aware of some players using this technique as a sort of trick but I've never heard anyone use it in a way that didn't affect their sound, thus making it unusable in the kind of playing I do.
How you define worthwhile will determine whether this technique is something you should pursue. For me, I never saw the purpose.
My opinion for what it's worth...