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From:  Greypins@a...
Greypins@a...
Date:  Sun Aug 5, 2001  4:04 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Rock aesthetics and singer's formant (to Mike) was: Seth Riggs...


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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13592 Re: Rock aesthetics and singer's formant (to Mike Wim Ritzerfeld   Sun  8/5/2001   3 KB
13602 Re: Rock aesthetics and singer's formant (to Mike Lloyd W. Hanson   Sun  8/5/2001   7 KB
13604 Re: Rock aesthetics and singer's formant (to Mike Wim Ritzerfeld   Sun  8/5/2001   3 KB

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