To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
From: Sherwood
Subject: Re: Exposing children to head voice sound
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

>My kids like Julie Andrews and Charlotte Church (and me) but the first two
>voices are not something I want them to even think of emulating being so big
>and mature sounding. (I finally saw Charlotte singing on Leno the other
>night and she really did have a chin wobble. Is it your opinion that it is
>nervous tension or it is conscious?) So my kids (7 and 8) just sing for
>fun, we are just getting into round singing and they sing with the just for
>fun kids choir at church. They also play recorder.

Just a thought. It seems to me that the recorder sound is a good example
of "head tone", especially if you contrast it with a saxophone.