tomczak@h-sc1.UUCP (bill tomczak) (08/27/85)
>In order to play it you have to learn how to breath in >through your nose while simultaneously breathing out through your mouth >(how this is done, I know not). You use your cheeks as a bellows. You blow up your cheeks to get as much air in your mouth as possible then use your cheek muscles to keep up the air pressure. This gives you some 1/2 to one second to get another lungful of air. It's a very common technique in folk music all over the world (the zurna in the middle east is the one I'm most familiar with). Bill Tomczak
chaiklin@umn-cs.UUCP (Seth Chaiklin) (09/03/85)
You may be able to see an Australian aborigine playing this instrument in a recent film by Werner Herzog, titled (approx.) "Where Green Ants Dream." The film is interesting beyond this instrument.