| Re: Trumpet Playing May Be Dangerous to Your Health.
Rowuk,
If you would have read my post and understood it, you would know that this is a common physical reaction, not a sickness and that it’s effects/results as it were are NOT from hyperventilation but rather the exact opposite. It is a fall in blood pressure that causes dizziness and results in fainting.
It should be noted that this maneuver, when used as a tool to equalize middle ear pressure, carries with it the risk of auditory damage from over pressurization of the middle ear.
As one gets older this “condition” becomes more pronounced and serious. Should you be one of the retired trumpet players and volunteer in one of the church’s orchestras, tape a note on your music stand and as you play the last loud, long and high sustained note and as you are feeling you are reaching the throngs of nirvana and start to think that this is like King David when he was playing music, you should realize that you are in a very serious medical condition and that you should open your eyes and read the note: “King David played strings.” |