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From: dclark
Subject: Speaking and singing
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Lisa-Marie Olson wrote:

> I'm getting in at the end of this conversation, and I
> am not familiar with Seth Riggs, but I just wanted to
> add that as a high soprano, I was always taught to
> ignore or change my speaking voice.

That seems pretty silly advice to me, since the speaking voice and
singing voice are the same instrument, and whatever speech habits one
has are going to effect one's singing, for better or worse. I have
often thought that all singing students should spend the first semester
just working on developing a good speaking voice. It would make
subsequent semesters a whole different kettle of fish!

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