page_title: Circular breathing
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Circular breathing / Uses
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Илья Белов играет на диджериду на концерте фестиваля «Пересечение». Событие происходило в Парке Победы в городе Переславле. Илья Белов — солист ярославской группы «Angelique». English: Ilya Belov plays didgeridoo at the concert in the «Crossing» festival. Event took place in Victory Park in Pereslavl. Ilya Belov — a soloist of «Angelique» band from Yaroslavl.
context_page_description: Circular breathing is a technique used by players of some wind instruments to produce a continuous tone without interruption. It is accomplished by breathing in through the nose while simultaneously pushing air out through the mouth using air stored in the cheeks.
context_section_description: It is used extensively in playing the Eastern zurna, the Mongolian limbe, the Sardinian launeddas, the Egyptian arghul, the Australian didgeridoo, as well as many traditional oboes and flutes of Asia and the Middle East. A few jazz and classical wind and brass players also use some form of circular breathing.
  Although many professional wind players find circular breathing highly useful, few pieces of European orchestral music composed before the 20th century actually require its use. However, the advent of circular breathing among professional wind players has allowed for the transcription of pieces originally composed for string instruments which would be unperformable on a wind instrument without the aid of circular breathing. A notable example of this phenomenon is "Moto Perpetuo", transcribed for trumpet by Rafael Méndez from the original work for violin by Paganini.
  In 1997, a Guinness World Record was set for longest held musical note.  Kenny G used circular breathing to sustain an E-flat on a saxophone for 45 minutes and 47 seconds. On February 2000, Vann Burchfield set a new Guinness world record for circular breathing, holding one continuous note for 47 minutes, 6 seconds, surpassing Kenny G’s record. Mark Atkins on Didgeridoo Concerto (1994) plays for over 50 minutes continuously.
  On Sunday, 14 May 2017, Nigerian saxophonist Femi Kuti broke Mark Atkins' record by playing for 51 minutes, 38 seconds; after successfully breaking Kenny G's record the previous week.
caption: A man playing the didgeridoo.
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