From a music software discussion list, billed as "true story":
A school music teacher who had been operatically trained was
talking to her class about the importance of breath control. To
illustrate her point she took a deep breath and let out a loud, long
note. There was no wavering of the tone, no variation of the pitch, no
diminishing of the loudness of the note, and she held it for a really,
really, REALLY long time. Finally, she finished the note, there was a
stunned silence from the class until one voice from the back of the
class said "Had this been an actual emergency........"
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