Lloyd,
I'll try real hard to explain here - because I think it is a topic of paramount significance. I think falsetto is the voice male singers naturally go in to when they sing a note at about a G above middle C and higher in a soft voice. It is naturally soft and kind of effeminate sounding.
It feels like another muscle group - separate from the speaking voice - takes over the production of the tone when singing in falsetto.
I had what I thought was a very clear understanding of falsetto when I was a teenager. I was told not to use this voice (and I didn't want to use it), so I didn't and I developed all kinds of vocal problems.
Later in life I found I could start a tone in this falsetto voice and by crescendoing, a new, and different masculine quality appeared. This is a chest quality being added to the tone - however, I still feel that the tone is being guided by the muscles that initially could only produce the lightest of possible "falsetto" tones.
This is about as much time as I have now to go into it. I hope this answers your question about what I mean with "falsetto."
John
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