"James" <stjames@l...> wrote:
"James" <stjames@l...> wrote:
> All men have the ability to produce falsetto, but many do not know
how to do
> it. Some women say they have no chest voice, but here it is also a
question
> learning how to produce it.
I don't agree with this. There are neurological, as well as
physiological, aspects to the change of voice in a teenage boy. There
is no way to prove that a man who has no apparent falsetto
simply "[does] not know how to do it". It is entirely possible
the "knowlege" was wiped out of the brain during puberty.
There is a broad range of how much upper voice ability men maintain
into adulthood. Top countertenors such as Scholl claim they simply
continued to use their boyhood head voices without break during
puberty, whereas most men retain some pale shadow of their upper
range in the form of the breathy sound so typical of falsetto. Other
men seem to lose the ability completely. Boys with endocrine problems
keep their voices in their entirety, of course.
Tako Oda,
Countertenor
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