"I've heard others breathe during lines. However, I stand by my traditional one-breath-per-line phrasing. "

I've told this tale before, but am unlikely to find it, so I'll tell it again.

I was having a Shaihatsu Massage in The Valley Mall. There was a guy nearby who I had met around the folkie scene, new to the (irish) whistle, playing something or other.

It took about 10-15 mins for my relaxed brain to trigger why what he was playing was NOT MUSIC!!! and why I had not recognised the common session 'tunes'...

He would start, play a flat out string of notes without any phrasing or much recognition of the fact that different notes were supposed 'to last different periods of time for a tune to be', then stop for a breath WHEREVER HE RAN OUT OF BREATH, then keep going again...

He too 'had a tradition'...