Personal stories of former and current enrollees and their relationship to the clinic teaching process -  starting in 1951 to today.

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May 2026 - 

     I wouldn’t be in music still if it wasn’t for my time at the clinic. Originally I felt like I was not succeeding as much as I should have, I was having doubts about staying in music, but the time at the clinic helped me look at things differently and revitalized my interest.

     I was learning about so many new things that help me put things into perspective on music. For instance, being able to see my tone on the strobe really boosted my confidence in music. I was also given opportunities in being able to play my instrument around other people that play in an environment where even though I was lacking in my ability to read notes, we worked on trying to get me to the level where I should be but we also in the meantime, focused on what my strengths were for a performance environment I started focusing on what interested me more than note reading, which was improvisation such as performing a jazz solo.

     While note reading is important, it is more important to have a great tone. It's more work to form a good tone than it is to read music something that made tone easier to work on was utilizing the strobe to actually be able to see what I’m working on instead of relying on someone else to tell me what my tone sounds like.

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September 2023 -

"From the onset of Anatowind there have been a growing number of people who have benefited 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 has affected their performance. Out intent is to define Anatowind, explain how it works, and to give results as offered through our enrollees."

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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.

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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.

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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."