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Hi, I am new to this list, but for some odd reason I cannot send articles by just replying, so I do it from the website. Anyway: Randy Buescher wrote: 'I've sung in several productions with Mr. Domingo and Karen is right,
he does struggle. His tongue is usually in a retroflexed position (...)'.
Now I know that there are many ways to position your tongue wrong while singing (and I practised quite a lot of them) but what does this retroflexed position exactly mean? Switched backward I guess, but how can this help somebody who is strugling with his high notes? I have noticed that Domingo
sometimes stretches his tongue out of his mouth when singing high notes. Does that have anything to do with it?

Dre de Man - lyrical tenor
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