Tako:
Thanks for the reply. I basically do not disagree with your analysis. The two forms of head voice you describe I have found in a variety of male singers. And your description of the functional difference between these two forms of head voice also makes sense.
I have also found that most singers with this vocal tonal variety have difficulty changing from the lighter form of head voice into the heavier form of head voice and back again in most parts of that range. It takes careful training to give them eventual control of these two modes within the same vocal range. I have also found that each of these singers is very aware that their falsetto voice has yet another vocal configuration with quite a different sound and feel when compared to the two forms of head voice.
-- Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA Professor of Voice, Pedagogy School of Performing Arts Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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