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To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: WAS: Baritone Upper Register Hook - now Gargle
Date sent: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 08:41:15 -0500
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Yikes! Susi, I had never heard this! I always did a voiced gargle with salt
water until in researching vocal hygiene, I read that it was better not to
involve the vocal folds. But no explanation was given. That's really
frightening. I learned to gargle as a small child by watching my Mom with
her Listerine mouthwash and by observing mouthwash gargling in TV
commercials - all voiced garglers. If it's as dangerous as you report, I
wonder why there isn't more said about it and why it's still represented on
TV this way without huge hue and cry from medical professionals?

Laura

Susi previously wrote:
" Do you find that your larynx lifts during this exercise? How do you keep
it
level? Have you tried to "gargle" using your vocal cords? ( You drown if
you use water and the cords don't close properly!)"