Lloyd wrote :
<<But the head voice displays a different vocal function than is displayed in chest voice. Falsetto displays yet another vocal function. These vocal functions have been well documented for many years. (...) Vocal fold function in head voice is most definitely unique and different from vocal fold function in chest voice. Falsetto is yet again different.>>
I thought the latest consensus was about there being only mode 1 to 4 (Strohbass, chest, falsetto and whistle), while other "registers" were resonance registers, with no significant change in the laryngeal source. But since I left Vocalist maybe 2 years ago, things may have evolved! I would be glad if they did, since I always felt a continuum from "chest" to "falsetto", thru "head" or not. But at the time, you defended, and apparently still defends, the opinion that falsetto was a completely different thing and couldn't be crescendoed to nor from. Even if we leave that out for the moment, why indeed couldn't there be a continuum between chest and head, with a progressive move of the tension from the vocalis muscle to the ligament? (In my view, falsetto would just be a further step to the mucosal covering.)
I don't know if scientists ever studied a proper mix and a seamless passage between chest and head or falsetto. I have been a guinea pig for such a scientist some time ago, and she was surprised at my seamless move from chest into falsetto and back, on something like a two-octave scale. She then asked me to record it again with an audible break, probably because that was what she needed for her study. She has published her thesis since then, and I don't know which recording she used. Since I did not understand a single word in her thesis subject and did not understand the interest of it either, I did not bother to try and read the result of her study.
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