lloyd wrote:
"This is so because the acoustic properties of the sound in the vocal
tract can provide a kind of acoustic support for the vocal folds
throughout the transition range."
lloyd,
do you think effect of this 'support' purely psychological or, is
there an actual physical phenomenon as well, however slight? (i remember we
briefly talked about standing waves a few years ago and, at the time, i
wondered if they had a physical effect on the behavior of the vocal folds.)
lloyd also wrote:
"As singers and voice teachers we most often concern ourselves with
techniques that work regardless of why they work. The danger in this
approach is that it is possible to develop a technique that limits
the vocal potential of the singer and does not address the vocal
demands of a particular singing style. At its worst, this pragmatic
approach to singing can even provide a technical solution which is
contrary to the organic physical functioning of the vocal mechanism."
--
additionally, these techniques often have glorious though, short-lived
results: carreras, seve ballesteros, kerry woods, chris cornell. having
once had a golf swing that produced glorious results (by hack standards) but
lots of pain in my left elbow, i'm not so sure i would find it easy to
caution against such 'deals with the devil'.
mike
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