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From:  buzzcen@a...
Date:  Sun Sep 8, 2002  2:07 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] "Muscle Memory"

In a message dated 9/8/2002 8:15:16 AM Central Daylight Time,
lloyd.hanson@n... writes:


> But, does it really exist? Do the muscles of singing really have a
> memory of their own? If so, why should singers concern themselves
> with any kind of understanding of the workings of the voice. Just
> train up the muscles in way they should go and they will not depart
> from it.
>

I don't think the muscles themselves have a memory. To contract they need to
be enervated, what has the memory is the cns acting in repetitive patterns
which causes the same muscular activity to take place over and over again.

Randy Buescher






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