On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 Greypins@a... wrote:
> but tako, male singers can produce breathy chest voice that has no singer's
> formant. do you call that falsetto as well? i call what daniels sings in
> 'falsetto'. what you call falsetto, i think is just a weak, breathy version
> of what i call falsetto. to compare daniels singing the C above middle C to
> pavarotti singing it (or gedda, araiza, wunderlich, etc) is not even close.
> even daniels distinguishes between tenor head voice and what he wishes had a
> better name than falsetto (changing what it is called is not going to change
> anyone's attitude towards it, positive or negative).
Could it be that the countertenor "falsetto" is more closely aligned to
the soprano's "whistle register" than to the "falsetto" that most other
men use - i.e., in terms of intensity and focus of the sound?
KM
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