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Homo inspirans: The Story of How Man Put Breathing to the Service of Art

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In this book, you'll learn how, when, and with what means humans learned to extract sounds from the air, and why they needed it in the first place.
But this book, of course, isn't just about wind instruments. They are merely the outward manifestation of the compelling needs and characteristics inherent to the species Homo sapiens—curiosity, ingenuity, and a keen desire to explore all the possibilities offered by the world in which this species, in our person, inhabits us.

To satisfy their innate passion for music, humans used not only their arms and legs but also adapted their breathing. And when it became clear that even this wasn't enough for complete happiness, they found all sorts of, sometimes the most exotic, ways to pump air into musical instruments—from forced-air to compressors.
So we'll talk about a particular case of Homo sapiens—Homo inspirans.
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