Does anyone have anything to say on this, with regard to Cornelius Reid's defintions of falsetto, chest, and 'head' voices? It if my experience that in his defintion [whereby the falsetto and chest are separate functions entirely], even with the two registers separated fully, the falsetto far overlaps past the top of the chest voice. In fact, mine goes down to about F below middle C. The top of my chest voice is around E or F above middle C. This is actually the natural case of most males and females. It is a strange phenomenon that has yet to be explained: pure chest voice ends around the same place in all voices.
More on this later....
Nick Scholl
>>Falsetto is usually defined as that vocal quality which is produced by the male voice well above his usual chest voice range which, for lack of a better description of sound, imitates a female voice in the same range. Few singers are abole to produce a wide dynamic range in falsetto, usually not more than mp to f. Most male falsetto appears a few notes above the highest possible notes of the chest voice and the singer experiences a release of some of the breath pressure which has increased as the chest voice is sung higher and higher. It is most common that a break or absence of notes will occur between the top of the chest voice and the appearance of falsetto. >>
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