Then why is it called a “spit valve”? 
It’s called the “waterkey”, actually
Rashaan Roland Kirk, whose name I may have botched, used his stomach as part of his circular breathing.
Dizzy Gillespie’s cheek pouches were a different matter. He had a condition that glassblowers got. When a medical researcher wanted to study Diz’s cheeks, he agreed, if they’d name it after him. They are now known as Gillespie’s Pouches.
Ok OK, I recieve well the phisiological ass reaming. It seems I got my sheet (cough) all mixed up between two classes. Blake, you are quite right about blood pH, etc. etc. But I’m not crazy, there is a relevance to partial pressures of gas mixtures in a discussion about respiratory phisiology. My mixup came when I confused my bio-chem, with my fish study. Fish study consisted of determining the actual reasons for the easil proved “Fish can’t breathe air and humans can’t breathe water.” Care to take a crack anyone? Of course, this is a freshman year undergrad phisiology question, it’s not quite an end all challenge, but it should be fun. I’ll drop off the answers after work tonight, that gives you…((checks clock))…9 hours. Fire away folks! I expect many WAGs. Oh and I expect the real answer from you Blake, since you made me your bitch earlier . Ahh aint phisiology great?
–J
p.s. One of you wind bags (geddit?) up near the top was talking about a technique called “multiple tounging,” what on earth is that? I mean, beside some extracurricular (nocturnal perhaps) rehaersals that occurred (more than) “one time, at band camp?” Mmm…nice.
Gawd, forgive the typos. Just read my own post. They got retarded dolphins that can’t type better than me. Please forgive, I’m rushing out the door.
Multiple tonguing is used to get really really fast notes to come out. Big trumpet fanfares and the like. Normally when you play, you attack each note my moving your tongue as if you were saying “ta.” When you get to the point where repeated notes have to come out faster than you can say “ta ta ta ta ta ta,” you can switch to double tonguing (“ta ka ta ka ta ka”), or triple tonguing (“ta ka da ta ka da”).