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GordonH · 01-24-2008, 09:39 AM

I am guessing a mixture of dehydration (if the band was playing late in the day and it was a young person because bands drink like fish and if you aren't on the booze you will be on the coca cola which is a diuretic) and possibly nerves causing him not to breath properly. Its soprano cornet and that can be a bit of a challenge if your breathing is not quite right. He may have not been expelling enough of the co2 out of his lungs but still breathing in.

01-24-2008, 09:39 AM	#3 (permalink)
GordonH Mezzo Piano User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Scotland Posts: 589	Re: Soprano cornet player collapses during performance I am guessing a mixture of dehydration (if the band was playing late in the day and it was a young person because bands drink like fish and if you aren't on the booze you will be on the coca cola which is a diuretic) and possibly nerves causing him not to breath properly. Its soprano cornet and that can be a bit of a challenge if your breathing is not quite right. He may have not been expelling enough of the co2 out of his lungs but still breathing in. __________________ "O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest, Thou melt'st my heart, my brain--thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;" (Walt Whitman)