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M. ALPHONSE SAX'S NEW SCHOOL. 405
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layer " Son of of suck a wind instruments instrument I have maker been , and during myself 1 , the a wh maker ole cours and e
those p of my instruments life , in constant so fatal relation , peop with le , say thousands to , the of health artists ; , and who three play
only of the artists , I have known , , died from , consumption . Besides , it ' must be added—for the fact wasin the different cases , proved-
—, these unhappy men were not victims to their calling , but to excesses of all kinds in which they had constantly indulged .
" People ' who give themselves up to the practice of wind instruments arein generalremarkable—every one can judge for
them-, , uhmistakeable selves—by a full si y developed of vigour chest . Who and a has great not breadth seen among of shoulders ¦ stroll- ,
ing players worn en gns playing either the horn , the cornet , the trumpet , or even the trombone and ophicleid , and who has not noticed that
female musicians enjoy a perfect health , and present a considerable development of the thorax ?
" There is a curious remark to be made on this point : in an orchestracorpulence and vigour are the privilege of those who
play wind , instruments , whilst debility and thinness are the lot of Pagaiiini ' s followers . ' With equal reason can this be said of
pianists . Let us mention Lastz , Liittolf , Flaller , Auguste _Dupont , to speak only of a few among the celebrated ones .
"¦ Moreover , if I may be allowed to allude to ' a ' personal instance , I will that wein my family—eleven children in
numbersay , ¦ wer e all condemned by the medical faculty to die from consumption . The dismal prophecy of the doctors has been fulfilled on eight of
us , but the three others , those who from their tender years have blown brass instruments , are actually full of life and vigour , and
have all the physical appearances which bode long days to come . " Artists who lay on wind instruments generally enjoy good
be appetites seenafter ; their a cop di p gestion ious meal is quick playing and 1 without easy , fati and gue they or may giddiness often
for four , or five consecutive hours , . If by any cause they are forced to ive -their laying for a certain length of timethey lose their
appetite gup , their stomach p grows languid , their digestion , difficult , and tney no longer enjoy that comfort which results from the regular
play of all , and particularly the breathing , organs . This I can state from experience .
"In 1847 I had for three months to dispense with my flute , and every other wind instrument . I soon , for want of the
exercise of the lungs to which I was accustomed , fell ill . When , the acute period of my disease being overI took again to my wind
instrument _5 my recovery was so rapid that , it astonished the learned Dr . _Kequin , who was then attending me .
" In order that wind instruments should produce the good effect thatin my opinionis to be expected from them , it is necessary
that , the professor should , . teach his pupils how to breathe . Each
breath ought to be taken at full lungs ; first , because that great
M. Alphonse Sax's New School. 405
M . _ALPHONSE SAX ' S NEW SCHOOL . 405
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/45/
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