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From:  Greypins@a...
Greypins@a...
Date:  Fri Mar 9, 2001  8:36 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] students with pitch problems


i have had the experience of working with people to correct notions of
how pitch works. many singers, without any difficulty in matching or
reproducing pitch, have the goofball idea that high notes are up higher
rather than faster vibrating (as if a soprano would become a bass if she fell
down a well istead of a dead soprano. if you throw a piano down a
mineshaft, you get Ab minor.). this usually leads to an elevated larynx,
the jerry lewis sound and the singer appears to be looking over a fence. in
some singers, they will actually sing a lower octave and some just lower (and
not even close to the right pitch) when managing not to raise their larynx.
and, oddly enough, their tone improves while doing so. so, here is a
situation where the tone gets better but the pitch sense proves to be
incorrect after all.

mike

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