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From:  buzzcen@a...
Date:  Fri Apr 5, 2002  12:44 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Male/Female registers (was: how do you define 'head voice'?)

In a message dated 4/4/2002 11:55:37 AM Central Standard Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:


> Randy:
>
> If the vocal folds are more tightly closed would that develop greater
> breath pressure (subglottal) but not, necessarily, greater breath
> flow?
> --
> Lloyd W. Hanson
>

What I was referring to was the initial blast of excessive airflow (from the
lungs) in which the larynx reacts to by recruiting extrinsic musculature to
resist it. This in turncreates tremendous tension. I hope that's clearer.

Randy Buescher






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