Tako wrote:
> I've always been mystified by what seems an inability to access true
> falsetto in many tenors. Is it just trained out of them, or is because
> their larynges are smaller...?
>
> I guess the second explanation could sort of make sense, considering that
> women have still shorter cords than tenors and there is basically no such
> thing as a female falsetto (at least in the clinical sense).
That's the same explanation I've always heard, but then, as I told the list
some times, how come I have a falsetto but have cords between the average
size a woman's and a man's?
I can remember Lloyd said once that women don't have a falsetto, but a
different register that may be taken as being falsetto, but it's actually
something else ( I think the name was flageollot, or is it still something
else? ).
Given that, I was thinking the other day: light tenors ( supposedly, with
cords like mine ) might be entitled to reach that 'quasi-falsetto' register
that women have, the same kind of 'falsetto' voice that Mike says women use
as supposedly their head voices and the lighter form of head voice you and
Lloyd agreed to exist.
Does that make sense, or am I assuming everything that's weird has the same
explanation?
Bye,
Caio Rossi
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