At 06:45 PM 8/24/01 -0000, Tako Oda wrote: >When I started out, I aggresively trained my low range, not realizing >that the low notes were not really mine, but just a very strong >strohbass. Wasted several years doing that! Turns out I don't have >much of a legitimate low range at all, but instead have an extended >upper range.
Dear Tako and Listmates,
Please tell me what "strohbass" means. My German dictionary defines "stroh" as straw. My music dictionary defines "strohfidel" as xylophone [as the pitchboards were originally suspended on straw ropes]. Is the strohbass a baritone "suspended by ropes" :-) ?
When I first started private voice lessons my first teacher placed me as a baritone and proceeded to help me strengthen my low notes. But singing this way was very tiring and often left me a bit hoarse and with an impaired top. I sought some "second opinions". My current teacher worked with me for a few weeks, then told me I was trying to "beef up my low notes", and that I shouldn't sing that way, and is now training me as a tenor. I suspect I may be a very light and high lyric baritone, but he just says I am a "developing tenor" as the top seems to be still going up. I wonder if I was trying to use "strohbass" before?
GWendel, dT
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