Personal stories of former and current enrollees and their relationship to the clinic teaching process - starting in 1951 to today.
September 2023 -
"From the onset of Anatowind there have been a growing number of people who have benefitted from the clinical approach to the role of physiology in performance. People in all age groups have been enrolled and from time to time have offered their comments as to how the Anatowind movement ahs affected their performance. Out intent isto define Anatowind, explain how it works, and to give results as offered through our enrollees."
February 1983 -
I struggled with the trumpet for a year and half as a high school student---quit---started again at age 30--and fought it for 17 years until I discovered Anatowind 3 years ago, and now, having just turned 50, I am playing the best trumpet of my life."
April 2022 - Strobe
It's an elegant solution for quantifying acoustically accurate tone production. I think it's a really strong concept because it combines visual with aural and physical information which is received in three different parts of the brain.
March 2022
Because there is so little to none information about physiology of the embouchure.
Unless there was an egregious physical limitation in a player's embouchure that was affecting tonal or articulation quality, most teachers would only make changes to a players set up if the set up was affecting the overall sound that the player was producing. There were no developmental physiology corrections being taught or implemented because of the limited curriculum available to public grade schools and college professors . Tonal quality is based solely on ones talent level and physical anatomy and is treated as chance. There have undoubtedly been players that had mediocre sound quality that could have improved through knowledge of physiology manipulation and training.
- Former Student