Monday Musings

The Myth of the Breath Fix

Photo by Nino Liverani on Unsplash

In singing, every functional deficiency in the organ is replaced either by breath pressure, or by an excessive consumption of breath. Either the breath is dammed up, or it escapes partly unused (‘wild air’, ‘superfluous breath’); the former stiffens the larynx, the latter makes it flabby, and either turns it into a mech…