Peggy wrote:
> I think the sound in my voice that may be comparable to the > male falsetto is the sound I make at the very bottom of my > range, D natural, D# or C natural below middle C. It's a > sound that feels to me (and sounds inside my head) like the > sound one makes when blowing over the top of an empty 6-1/2 > ounce Coca Cola bottle. I can make the tone, but there's no > way I could ever do anything other than make the tone. > Can't make it louder, can't make it softer, can't sing it > any other way than the way it comes out.
Wow! What a fascinating discussion. I had no idea there was so much controversy surrounding registers!
I am a male and can sing in what I call 'falsetto', BUT ... I can make it louder or softer, change its 'colour', etc.
Methinks we are talking about different things then. This is all so subjective as we're trying to relate our own internal subjective feelings with other people's descriptions of theirs.
I'm not classically trained and sing mostly world music from the oral tradition, which means that I use the upper reaches of (what I suppose is) my 'chest' voice. I use the break between that and my 'falsetto' voice to create the yodels and other effects that you hear in Eastern European and some African music.
There have been several mentions in this thread about damaging the voice by, for example, pushing the head voice up too high. How does one account then for the extraordinary voices heard in the many cultures which still maintain a strong oral tradition? Surely these people should have wrecked their voices in youth??!! And they didn't receive training either.
All the best
Chris Coventry, UK
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