The Breath Builder is one of the newest innovations in breath control in the music field. For years music teachers have had students do everything from lying on their back, with a couple of books on their stomach and watching them rise and fall when taking a deep breath, to blowing at a candle for a period of time without blowing it out, just bending them flame.

In the past, students did not know much about inhalation and exhalation. They were told to take a deep breath and let it out slowly - with absolutely no way to judge how they were doing. The Breath Builder is a self - teaching device. To use it correctly, you have to breathe correctly. The cylinder is translucent, so the teacher and student can see the ball rise and fall.

DO IT DAILY – BUILD YOUR HEALTH – BE A WINNER!

Instrumentalists and vocalists, by using the Breath Builder daily, have found how they can use their breath energy more effectively. Your tone will improve and most of all, those long phrases that were troubling you will no longer be a problem. You will feel gratification and have more confidence singing and playing. Like ALL great athletes, musicians and singers you will notice the development in hardening on your diaphragm muscles. You will feel the tightening of your pectoral muscles and notice what it does for your chest development.

The Breath Builder will FORCE you to breath correctly. With the exception of professional athletes, musicians and singers, few people breath properly. Yet, inhalation and exhalation is important to your health and it is the path to an expansion to your vital capacity - the amount of air you can take into your lungs to replenish the blood stream with oxygen. When you can do that, you revitalize every cell in your body. Think of it!

Consider the Breath Builder as you would a prized musical instrument. Handle with care. Rinse it daily in lukewarm water mixed with a dash of mild liquid soap. After final cool pure water rinse, wipe off the exterior and lay it down at an angle to dry. Then put it away where it will be safe.

Blow vigorously into the mouthpiece. Then inhale deeply. Be conscious of the use of diaphragm muscles.

The object of all of the intense inhaling & exhaling is to keep the ball at the top of Breath Builder as long as you can. Hospitals throughout the nation are using it.

Musical academies have adopted it. Athletes thrive on it. Be patient. Do it daily. Build your health.

• Unit is translucent - you can see the progress
• Durable plastic construction
• Non-toxic
• Ball is size and weight of a Ping Pong ball
• Unit cleans with soap and water - mouth piece is removable. For cleaning
  remove bottom cap only
• Light weight and portable - take anywhere

WHO BENEFITS?

Musicians who need to sustain a note.

• Control your inhalation and exhalation with exquisite mastery.
• Makes a timid musician play out more.
• Isometric exerciser for lungs and diaphragm muscles.
• Increases ability to accurate tones– longer and smoother.

Vocalists who must have tremendous breath control and breathing power.

• Develops lung capacity for full relaxed inhalation
• Eliminates space between phrases - no noticeable pause
• Self teaching breath exerciser
• Increases ability for long tones - longer and smoother
• Makes you use proper muscles so they do not interact
• Greatly improves tone

Athletes who depend on a strong breathing mechanism to support their athletic skills.

• Develops diaphragm muscles
• Forces you to breathe correctly
• Excellent as a training exerciser

Smokers who can feel their health slipping away as a result of reduced vital capacity.

• Used regularly, this device will help curtail smoking while at the same time, increase lung capacity Especially helpful to persons suffering from:
• Emphysema
• Troubled Breathing
• Hyperventilation Syndrome
• Abnormal, Low– level Carbon Dioxide or Phosphate body shortages
• Two sizes - one for those people who have an advanced breathing problem, and one for people who are starting to have problems.

Anyone who recognizes the replenishing restorative value of deep breathing… the kind inhalation and exhalation that brings new life to the body, new energy to the spirit, new gusto to living!

Follow These Simple Instructions

1. Hold Breath Builder firmly in hand.
2. Place lips firmly over inhale-exhale tube.
3. Take a deep breath. Completely fill lungs. Your stomach should expand.
4. Blow hard into tube until ball inside cylinder rises to top.
5. When ball is all the way up in the cylinder, immediately inhale hard enough to keep ball at top of cylinder.

When you can do this easily, place index finger over one hole at top of cylinder and repeat the above process.
When you can do this with ease, place your index finger over 2 holes and repeat. You will find that when you start covering the holes, the exercise gets tougher.

ONE HOLE IN CYLINDER MUST ALWAYS BE OPEN.

NOTE: Grease post before attaching straw tube.

This device enables individuals to practice breath control. The container has a transparent wall accommodating in its interior a light-weight article such as a ball which can be raised by currents of air blown into the container. The air can discharge out of the container through an opening with which a second opening of a selected size can be placed in registry, so that by selecting an opening of a suitable size to be placed in registry with the first opening it is possible to control the resistance to discharge of air out of the container, thus enabling the operator to practice breath control.

THE BREATH BUILDER

The Marvelous New Instrument That Helps You Breathe Your Way to New Found Health and Lung Capacity.

The Breath Builder is being used by musicians and instructors all over the world.

• Arnold Jacobs - Brass Clinician/Authority on Breath Control
• Keith Johnson - Prof. TPT University of North Texas State
• Yehuda Gilad - Prof. Clarinet USC
• Sheridan Stokes - Prof. Flute UCLA
• Art Jennings - (Trombone) University of Florida
• Keith Underwood - (Flute) Clinician
• Charles Childers - (French Horn) Music Ed. Consultant
• David Stewart - Brass Dept. Iowa State University

WORDS FROM THE EXPERTS:

“I’ve been using the Breath Builder for about two years with my choir and private vocal students. There has been a dramatic improvement in their ability to use their breath energy for more effective singing. Not only has their breath capacity improved, which one would expect, but their tone has improved in obvious ways. What use to take me months to develop in young singers can be reduced to weeks if they work conscientiously with The Breath Builder. Now it has been standard equipment for membership in my choirs.

One of the most intriguing benefits is that a sense of friendly competition has developed among the vocal students to see who has most advanced breathing technique. They hold impromptu competitions of their own invention that test various aspects of breathing using the Breath Builder.

In choir we use them at least three times a week for warm ups and also keep them handy to use during rehearsal if we need such things as more energetic vocals lines, more emphatic accents, more efficient breaths between phrases, etc. One of the major benefits chorally is the greatly improved tone. I can describe good tone, demonstrate it and request it all I want but unless they have proper breath energy working I usually won’t be satisfied. The Breath Builder makes it all happen much sooner. Breathing is the foundation of singing and using the Breath Builder is by far the best way to teach it."

Dr. Mark Henderson Director of Choral activities Weber State Collage, Ogden Utah President-elect of Utah ASDA