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CONCEPTS OF BREATHING
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of issuance. Obviously, if the breath stream flowed with the speed of sound waves a miniature hurricane would be generated. [Shaw 540] It is apparent, therefore, that voice is not breath and breath is never "con­verted" into voice. The concept of singing on the breath is misleading be­cause voice cannot possibly travel on the breath and "the absurd idea that the voice is vocalized breath is without meaning/* [Stanley 576]