| From: John Alexander Blyth Subject: Re: Question about CD to Vaccaj book To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Ingo, I've had this kind of experience too: 1. There is quite a range of vocal qualities among baritones, Miller has reported classifications of baritono lirico and baritono robusto, not forgetting the bass-baritone. I've heard baritones that sound very close to tenors. 2. Professional recording can reproduce lower frequencies with greater fidelity, as can bigger and better speakers and amplification. One's own voice often sounds thinner on a recording because one is so used to hearing the lower frequencies conducted through the bones in one's head preferentially to the higher frequencies, so one has to some extent 'tuned them out' when listening to one's own speech, or singing. 3. The acoustic space in which one sings can make up for a less resonant vocal apparatus, so a singer recorded in a church may sound more impressive than you in your felt-lined living room (not that I am suggesting your living room is, in fact, lined with felt). 4. Vibrato can create the effect of depth and added resonance. 5. Young people usually sound young: the vocal muscles take time to develop their full potential; ditto the abdominal; perhaps other physical changes... John, some sort of baritone, I suppose
... >I realise that what I hear when I'm singing is far >removed from what everyone else hears, but to my >untrained ears Mr. Gallo sounds almost like a bass. ... >Ingo >ingo_d-at-yahoo.com... John Blyth Bass/Baritone (as opposed to Bass-Baritone) though I'm really a baritone Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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