If I had a dollar for every time a young baritone has been mistaken for a
tenor...
Remember, a baritone is more related to a tenor than a bass.
Mark Montgomery
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Trevor Allen wrote:
> I have heard as a general rule, that most people speak
> about a fourth above their lowest note. That would
> put me speaking at the A2 area, but I usually speak
> around D3 area. I'm a baritone and when I tell people
> that I sing, a lot of people have asked me if I'm a
> tenor. I've tried speaking down in the more
> baritonish range, but my voice tired rather quickly.
> I don't think this answers anything that you asked,
> but this is my experience with speaking versus singing
> voice.
>
> Trevor
> --- valevanni@m... wrote:
> > During last autumn, I began having voice problems
> > (loss of high
> > range, rigidity of /i/ and /u/ vowels...). A
> > laringoscopy showed that
> > my cords were swellen and reddened. Then, I began
> > working with a
> > speech therapist about hard onsets and troaty
> > speaking. Now hard
> > onsets have bettered very much, but troaty speaking
> > remains.
> > High range remains a dream :-(
> >
> > This afternoon, a laryngoscopy showed that swelling
> > has gone, but
> > reddening is still there (and the rest of larynx too
> > is reddened).
> > During this period I'm also examinating a possible
> > reflux.
> >
> > Another thing I find changed is the speaking pitch:
> > once it was about
> > B3, now it's about F3 (and, when I speak, I find F3
> > too tiring, too
> > low!). The ent said that according to him, F3 is
> > already rather high,
> > because men's voices are usually in the C3-E3 area.
> > He said that for a light tenor like me, F3 is right.
> >
> > A thing: is it possible that all male speaking
> > voices are contained
> > in a so narrow space (2 tones)?
> >
> > The ENT said that, looking my cords, my natural
> > range should be about
> > C3-C5 (like it was before the problem came), and I
> > should try to work
> > with the speech therapist (in speaking exercises) in
> > the C3-E3 area.
> >
> > I find it strange that is good to speak on the
> > lowest part of one's
> > own voice: wouldn't be better to speak on the
> > middle-low part?
> >
> > For example, you other, on what pitch do you speak?
> > (in relation to
> > your singing range).
> >
> > Vale
> >
> >
>
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