From: John Alexander Blyth
Subject: Re: Question about CD to Vaccaj book
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
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Ingo,
I've had this kind of experience too:
1. There is quite a range of vocal qualities among baritones, Miller
has reported classifications of baritono lirico and baritono robusto, not
forgetting the bass-baritone. I've heard baritones that sound very close to
tenors.
2. Professional recording can reproduce lower frequencies with
greater fidelity, as can bigger and better speakers and amplification. One's
own voice often sounds thinner on a recording because one is so used to
hearing the lower frequencies conducted through the bones in one's head
preferentially to the higher frequencies, so one has to some extent 'tuned
them out' when listening to one's own speech, or singing.
3. The acoustic space in which one sings can make up for a less
resonant vocal apparatus, so a singer recorded in a church may sound more
impressive than you in your felt-lined living room (not that I am suggesting
your living room is, in fact, lined with felt).
4. Vibrato can create the effect of depth and added resonance.
5. Young people usually sound young: the vocal muscles take time to
develop their full potential; ditto the abdominal; perhaps other physical
changes...
John,
some sort of baritone, I suppose


...
>I realise that what I hear when I'm singing is far
>removed from what everyone else hears, but to my
>untrained ears Mr. Gallo sounds almost like a bass.
...
>Ingo
>ingo_d-at-yahoo.com...
John Blyth
Bass/Baritone (as opposed to Bass-Baritone) though I'm really a baritone
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada