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[UncleBeer]

(Unc Beer's comment to stay in the 70% capacity area cracked me up)

I'm sorry you've misunderstood. That's not what I wrote.

[bloke]

(Unc Beer's comment to stay in the 70% capacity area cracked me up)

I'm sorry you've misunderstood. That's not what I wrote.

HEY !!!

I'm MUCH better at misunderstanding that most people !!!

[Mary Ann]

(Unc Beer's comment to stay in the 70% capacity area cracked me up)

I'm sorry you've misunderstood. That's not what I wrote.

So what did I misunderstand?

" when playing, try to stay in the fullest 70% of your lung capacity, as that's the range where the elastic nature of your lungs wants to help you empty the lungs. "

To me that says try to keep your lungs close to 3/4 full so that you can do your playing in that physical situation. What did you mean?

[UncleBeer]

(Unc Beer's comment to stay in the 70% capacity area cracked me up)

I'm sorry you've misunderstood. That's not what I wrote.

So what did I misunderstand?

" when playing, try to stay in the fullest 70% of your lung capacity, as that's the range where the elastic nature of your lungs wants to help you empty the lungs. "

To me that says try to keep your lungs close to 3/4 full so that you can do your playing in that physical situation. What did you mean?

Context is important, Mary Ann. Including the portion you left out.

Below that range (and below the "tidal range", where we shallowly breathe while relaxed), we have to exert effort in order to exhale; fine to occasionally finish a long phrase, but not an easy area in which to make music

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This is in no way an instruction to ONLY stay in the 70% as you aver.

[Mary Ann]

Thanks for filling me in. I hope you didn't think I was making fun of you because what I was laughing about was my own trying to play above the 70% level over a lot of the instrument, because with my "perfect for an oboe player" lung capacity I'd be using at most a cup and a half of air.
Sorry if I offended; there was no intent.