In a message dated 8/4/2001 4:15:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, w.ritzerfeld@c... writes: w.ritzerfeld@c... writes:
<< Johan Sundberg did some research on the singer's formant and he found that the amplitude of the SF rises when the larynx is low and the pharynx is wide, but I never did the comparison myself. >>
wim,
as you can see with the example of scott walker i sent you, he clearly has a lowered larynx. if the lowered larynx were the key element in producing the singer's formant, he would not be able to sing in his 'mezza voce' with a lowered larynx as, the lowered larynx would produce the SF automatically. therefore, the production of the SF lies elsewhere and, as it is in evidence in singers with a high larynx, it is produced independently of larynx height.
the jo estill crowd claim the SF (they call it 'twang') is produced by the shaping of the epiglottis into a narrow tube by the ary-epiglottic muscles, creating a 1 to 6 ratio in terms of one tube extending into another. this might explain someone like baaba maal (the human oboe) who appears to produce nothing much else besides singer's formant with what appears to be a very high larynx.
if anything, i suspect the lowering of the larynx has just as much chance in diffusing the signal from the vocal folds as it does in magnifying the same.
mike
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