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From:  buzzcen@a...
Date:  Sun Mar 10, 2002  6:04 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Teaching question

In a message dated 3/10/2002 10:16:25 AM Central Standard Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:


> The male voice posses only two registers, chest and head. Falsetto
> is not usually considered a register in the classical manner of
> singing. All male voices must develop the coordination skill
> necessary to move gradually from chest voice (heavy mechanism) to
> full head voice (light mechanism). Many male voices find it easier
> to be in either chest OR head but have great difficulty in the
> meeting place of these to vocal configurations which is usually
> called the passaggio.

That passagio is a register though. It is the middle or mix where TA and CT
involvement and a mixed resonance scheme are involved. So there are 3
registers in the male voice (at least).

Randy Buescher







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