--- Greypins@a... wrote: > In a message dated 3/10/2001 5:47:19 PM Eastern > Standard Time, > cantabella_nf@y... writes: > > << Singers have a greater > propensity to this problem due to the unusual > uses of our body so we actually can create the > problem. >>
Hi Mike---- When I first started with this problem, I was referred to a Dr. Elliot Schneider in Calif. (my hometown) who treats singers and Orators as the bulk of his Clientelle. And he said in his experience "singers have a greater propensity because they USE their lower abdominal muscles in a Larger capacity than does a "regular" guy. In my years working with musicians and dancers, every "physical art form has it's own set of extreme uses that contribute to physical problems". In my own case the problem came not necessarily from JUST singing........but the complication of having upper - respiratory sinus and bronchial problems in conjunction with "larger that life singing" i.e. "larger than life" use of certain musculature of the body.
> nothing in the rest of your post baffles > me. i have a friend with > crohn's disease who found all the medical > treatment to be a dead end and only > some green junk helped him.
Right On Brotha!
it also seems > sensible to me that 'bad eating' > has to be, at least, part of these types of > problems.
Yes.....more so when you eat vs. when you sing (the time between the two).
if you were talking > about taking the idea of > appogio to 'being like defecating', too far, i > should think that would lead > to hemorrhoids before it would lead to anything > else.
I personally never had a hemorrhoid problem and I agree that that problem would occur if the appogio was takent too far. there is a small > number of singers who think that clenching > one's cheeks (not the ones on your > face) together aids in support.
I find for women ( who generally have weak abdominals) this technique is especially effective for high notes and yes, I use it in ONLY my Operatic singing technique. It earned me the reputation of "the girl with the Killer B Flat" :-)
> > i'm not challenging your ideas on this. > i'm just astonished at the > possibility and, given my finite knowledge, > can't begin to imagine how this > could be possible.
That's COOL
Back to Dr. Schnieder.....my information was from his years of "fixing" vocal professionals.
I enjoy sharing with Y'all!
> mike >
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