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From:  John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...>
Date:  Mon Aug 28, 2000  3:52 pm
Subject:  Sonagrams, was, and maybe still is: Different uses of the term "Head Voice"



Perhaps because of a scientific bent, I found the sonagrams in Miller's
Training Tenor Voices to be revelatory. However I thought this post was
hilarious, so thanks anyway! john

At 03:25 AM 8/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
...
>on richard miller's sonograms...(a fable--->) "well so and so, what did
you
>think of the concert?" "let me get back to you in the morning on that,
i'll
>need to check my data first."
>
>on natural, sam snead once said "you have to hit thousands of golfballs
>before you look like a natural".
>
>one last point on effort- in comparing fritz wunderlich singing loudly to
>bjoerling, if relative sub-glottal pressure could be measured, i would bet
>bjoerling had much more than wunderlich (and i make fun of miller's
>sonograms...).
>
>mike

John Blyth
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