I'm very intersted in this, as a baritone who has sung second bass for many years, just because I have low notes. Now here is the crux for me - though I don't know how loud Tako's impressive demonstration was, my low notes don't sound like that. They do, however, tail away in dynamic level, as I have bemoaned to this list in approximately this fashion:
NOTE LOUDEST POSSIBLE DYNAMIC D2 ff C2 f F#1 mf about here, natural vibrato is difficult C#1 mp B0 p or pp
Does this seem familiar to anyone? I don't think I'm doing the same think as Tako. Hein? Hein? Very interesting comparision with speaker resonance. john
At 06:22 PM 6/18/00 -0700, you wrote: >At 01:40 PM 06/18/2000 -0500, nancy clasby wrote: >>If you try strohbass, let us know what happens! :o) I read that some bass >>voices get quite firm, strong and comfortable at singing strohbass. > >It sounds dangerous to me. My caution is from my own >experiences in choral singing when I was the strongest bass in a >way-too-small bass section, and the part was very low - in my >normal range, but just barely. The director kept signaling me >for more, and I knew he meant me, not the guys standing around >me, because he knew I was the only one who could provide it, and >he looked me dead in the eye. I provided it... By the end of >the performance my throat felt like hamburger, and the next day >my cords had swollen up so that I lost most of my normal upper >range - close to an octave - and extended my lower range by >about a 4th. It took nearly a week to get back to normal. > >After that, I became the spokesman for the Basses' Union, as it >were, and whenever we were presented with a part containing a >lot of low fortissimo's I would speak up - at first I got razzed >for it, "The tenor section is over there, if this is too low for >you" - but we got our section miked when necessary. I've never >had any problem like that when called upon to "give a lot" in >the middle or upper parts of my range. I'm curious if anyone >else has had similar experiences - if not, maybe I just >contracted some bass virus at that exact moment.... I'm, uh, not >willing to try it again, so that source of data is unavailable. > >I"m still a little confused by my low range, to tell the truth - >it seems to vary quite a bit from day to day when vocalizing. I >get the feeling that the voice is like many types of speaker >enclosures - a sharp cutoff below a strong resonance - you can >still sing those notes, but they get softer and softer as you go >down the scale. Since I vocalize all the way down to the point >where I get no sound that can be called musical, I wonder ...
John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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