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From:  Clark_Diane <DCLARK@r...>
Date:  Thu Feb 27, 2003  5:46 pm
Subject:  RE: [vocalist] Rolling R's

Hanna wrote:

> I would guess that with a severe tongue tie (the tongue is attached
> with a very short frenulum), it would be difficult to make a rolling
> R. You have to be able to lift your tongue up to the "roof".
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Years ago I had a friend/colleague who suffered from this condition and had it
surgically corrected, because it interfered with her professional singing
ability.

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> Dr. Diane M. Clark, Assoc. Prof. of Music
> Dept. of Music, Rhodes College
> 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112
> 901-843-3782; fax 843-3789
> dclark@r... http://www.rhodes.edu
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