In a message dated 3/6/2003 2:17:48 PM Central Standard Time,
mikado3848@j... writes:
> Dear Lloyd and Listers,
>
> With ;my students I make fairly frequent use of Vennard's "yawn-sigh'
> concept because I think it helps internalize in the student's mind and
> body a basic self-awareness for what a freely functioning vocal mechanism
> is all about. It is wonderful for developing sense of genuine vocal
> freedom, in my view. In the 1967 edition of his book--"Revised Edition,
> Greatly Enlarged"--of his book Vennard makes quite clear also that a
> "swallowed tone" is highly undesirable (see pp. 155-158.)
>
> Regards,
> Carl Rogers
>
prolongation of a stretched position as in this technique is not free... it
also distorts vowels.
randy buescher
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