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OK, I searched for flute circular breathing and I found this. I read that the flutists don't use the cheeks. Instead they expand their throats and use them to store air. Can somebody tell me more?

However, I must point out that it is probably impossible to inhale while exhaling. We only have one windpipe, and air simply won't go two different directions through the same pipe. There's no 2 different directions of air in the trachea. When the air is inhaled into nose, a part of it goes into mo...

In circular breathing the air from cheeks goes into the instrument. In the described technique one part of the air, which is inhaled into nose, goes into the instrument and the rest of air goes to fill the lungs. When the lungs are full, the player "switches" from this technique for filling to norma...

This technique, which I want to understand is more difficult than the circular breathing and this two techniques are much different.

How you do it? What muscles are part of this technique and how exactly to use them?

Hi. My instrument isn't flute, but it is similar. I suppose the techniques used by flute players are also applicable for me. Is it possible to play endlessly with flute? What is the technique? One teacher had said me, that when my lungs are half empty, I must inhale while exhaling. I made a diagram ...