What I was getting at, and have written about before in length, was that the assumption that the female middle voice is rather long in nature, and low occurring in the voice (as a byproduct of presumed correct function) is false. The female chest voice is actually much longer than what more classically oriented pedagogies teach. The low mix is imposed on the voice early to create a femininity in the sound so that it is in line with a rather dated concept of what is feminine as opposed to masculine, or crass, as a lot of the classically based pedagogical texts put it.
The longer chest register be demonstrated by the simple lip trill. The shift in resonance is much higher in the female voice in that exercise, an exercise which more or less makes a singer sing in a very balanced manner.
Randy Buescher
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